decadent
See also: décadent
English
Etymology
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From French décadent, back-formation from décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin decadens, present participle of decadō (“sink, fall”). Cognate with French décadent.
Pronunciation
Adjective
decadent (comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent)
- Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
- Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
- Luxuriously self-indulgent.
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
- Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
- Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Synonyms
- (luxuriously self-indulgent): sinful (colloquial)
Translations
characterized by moral or cultural decline
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luxuriously self-indulgent
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Noun
decadent (plural decadents)
- A person affected by moral decay.
- L. Douglas
- He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
- L. Douglas
Related terms
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Translations
person affected by moral decay
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin decadens.
Pronunciation
Adjective
decadent m or f (masculine and feminine plural decadents)
Related terms
Further reading
- “decadent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “decadent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “decadent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “decadent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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