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decadent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun decadent has 1 sense
- decadent(n = noun.person) Array - a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically); Array is a kind of bad person
Derived forms adjective decadent1, verb decay2
Adjective decadent has 1 sense
- decadent(s = adj.all) effete - marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals" Derived forms noun decadence1, noun decadency1, noun decadent1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
decadent, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a in a state of moral or cultural deterioration; showing or characterized by decadence. b of a period of decadence.
2 self-indulgent.
--n. a decadent person.
--adj.
1 a in a state of moral or cultural deterioration; showing or characterized by decadence. b of a period of decadence.
2 self-indulgent.
--n. a decadent person.
Derivative
decadently adv.
Etymology
F d{eacute}cadent (as DECADENCE)
THESAURUS
decadent
abandoned, coming apart, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, cracking, crumbling, debased, debauched, decaying, declining, degenerate, degenerating, degenerative, degraded, depraved, deteriorating, disintegrating, dissipated, dissolute, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, falling off, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, immoral, languishing, marcescent, morally polluted, on the wane, perverted, pining, polluted, profligate, regressive, reprobate, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten, self-indulgent, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, steeped in iniquity, subsiding, tabetic, tainted, vice-corrupted, vitiated, waning, warped, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening
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