degenerate vs sordid

degenerate

adj
  • Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal; an immoral or corrupt person. 

  • Having lost good or desirable qualities. 

  • Having the same quantum energy level. 

  • Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range. 

  • Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors. 

verb
  • To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. 

  • To lose good or desirable qualities. 

noun
  • One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature. 

sordid

adj
  • Morally degrading. 

  • Of a dull colour. 

  • Dirty or squalid. 

  • Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible. 

  • Grasping; stingy; avaricious. 

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