'Decadent' definitions:
Definition of 'decadent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: decadent, effete]
noun
A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
Definition of 'Decadent'
From: GCIDE
- Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a. Decaying; deteriorating. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Decadent'
From: GCIDE
- Decadent \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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'decadent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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