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Decadent

Decadent Meaning & Definition
Decadent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Decadent?

[n] a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
[adj] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Decadent: effete | indulgent

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | bad person

Decadent In Webster's Dictionary

\De*ca"dent\, a. Decaying; deteriorating.
\De*ca"dent\, n. One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a certain school of modern French writers. The decadents and [ae]sthetes, and certain types of realists. --C. L. Dana. The business men of a great State allow their State to be represented in Congress by ``decadents''. --The Century.

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