decadent

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkədənt/

decadent (comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent)

1. 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.

2. 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!

decadent (plural decadents)

1. A person affected by moral decay.
   • L. Douglas

     He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

• decadence
• decay

• decanted

From Late Latin decadens.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /də.kəˈdent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /də.kəˈden/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /de.kaˈdent/

decadent (masculine and feminine plural decadents)

1. decadent

• decadència
• decaure

• “decadent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “decadent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.