degenerate
adjective/dɪˈdʒenərət/
/dɪˈdʒenərət/
- having moral standards that have fallen to a level that is very low and unacceptable to most people
- a degenerate popular culture
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin degeneratus ‘no longer of its kind’, from the verb degenerare, from degener ‘debased’, from de- ‘away from’ + genus, gener- ‘race, kind’.
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