Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a.
Decaying; deteriorating.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
decadent
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" [syn: effete]
n : a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or
artistically)
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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