The difference between Degenerate and Well-behaved

When used as adjectives, degenerate means having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal, whereas well-behaved means having good manners and acting properly.


Degenerate is also noun with the meaning: one who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.

Degenerate is also verb with the meaning: to lose good or desirable qualities.

check bellow for the other definitions of Degenerate and Well-behaved

  1. Degenerate as an adjective (of qualities):

    Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

  2. Degenerate as an adjective (of a human or system):

    Having lost good or desirable qualities.

  3. Degenerate as an adjective (of an encoding or function):

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

    Examples:

    "The [[genetic code]] is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several [[codon codons]]."

  4. Degenerate as an adjective (mathematics):

    A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.

  5. Degenerate as an adjective (physics):

    Having the same quantum energy level.

  1. Degenerate as a noun:

    One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.

    Examples:

    "In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy."

  1. Degenerate as a verb (intransitive):

    To lose good or desirable qualities.

    Examples:

    "His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital."

  2. Degenerate as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

  1. Well-behaved as an adjective (of a person or animal):

    Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour

    Examples:

    "The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty."

  2. Well-behaved as an adjective (mathematics):

    Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.

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