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degenerated
adjective as in crumbly
adjective as in degenerate
adjective as in kinky
adjective as in scrubby
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in shabby
Strongest matches
adjective as in tatty
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
Example Sentences
What was initially intended to be a celebration of music has degenerated into a weird marriage of fashion and commerce.
The war rapidly degenerated into horrific stalemate in the muddy, rat-infested trenches.
In other hands, this scenario might have degenerated into a caricature-filled freak show.
The scene degenerated, tear gas was used, and that set the stage for the more premeditated confrontations the following night.
Within the committee, partisan bickering has degenerated to personal distrust.
(b) Blood-casts contain red blood-corpuscles, usually much degenerated (Figs. 45 and 60).
This term means nothing in itself, but it expresses the fact that a degenerated heart finally refuses to act.
All the evidence shows how entirely they have degenerated into mere societies of capitalists.
But their kings, from the great wealth which they possessed, degenerated into a luxurious way of life.
It is narrative instead of dramatic; fable prevails over action; passion has degenerated into character-drawing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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