degenerate vs gone bad

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. 

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

verb
  • To cause to lose good or desirable qualities. 

  • To lose good or desirable qualities. 

gone bad

adj
  • Of a person or entity, having ceased to be reputable and having instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved. 

  • Of a region or area, having become unsafe. 

  • Of a delinquent or criminal act, having unexpectedly become more violent than is typical for that act—having resulted in an attack on a victim leading to serious injury or death. 

  • Of foods and commodities, having become spoiled, rotten, or otherwise unusable due to age or storage conditions. 

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