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English
Etymology
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.
1992, Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: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.
- Luxuriously self-indulgent.
Synonyms
- (luxuriously self-indulgent): sinful (colloquial)
Derived terms
Translations
characterized by moral or cultural decline
- Bulgarian: упадъчен (bg) (upadǎčen)
- Catalan: decadent (ca)
- Czech: dekadentní (cs)
- Finnish: rappeutunut, turmeltunut (fi), dekadentti (fi)
- French: décadent (fr)
- German: dekadent (de)
- Hindi: पतनोन्मुख (hi) (patnonmukh), ह्रासोन्मुख (hrāsonmukh), अपकर्षी (apkarṣī), पतनोमुख (patnomukh)
- Hungarian: dekadens (hu)
- Icelandic: hnignandi, hrörnandi, spilltur, úrkynjaður
- Indonesian: dekaden (id)
- Irish: meatach
- Italian: decadente (it)
- Polish: dekadencki
- Romanian: decadent (ro)
- Russian: упа́дочный (ru) (upádočnyj), упа́дочнический (ru) (upádočničeskij), декаде́нтский (ru) (dekadéntskij)
- Spanish: decadente (es)
- Tagalog: namumulok
- Thai: เสื่อมโทรม (th) (sʉ̀ʉam-soom)
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luxuriously self-indulgent
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.
Translations
person affected by moral decay
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin dēcadentem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
decadent m or f (masculine and feminine plural decadents)
- decaying, deteriorating, in decline
- decadent (characterized by moral or cultural decline)
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French décadent.
Adjective
decadent m or n (feminine singular decadentă, masculine plural decadenți, feminine and neuter plural decadente)
- decadent
Declension