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DECADENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decadent mean?
• DECADENT (noun)
The noun DECADENT has 1 sense:
1. a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
Familiarity information: DECADENT used as a noun is very rare.
• DECADENT (adjective)
The adjective DECADENT has 2 senses:
1. luxuriously self-indulgent
2. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
Familiarity information: DECADENT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("decadent" is a kind of...):
bad person (a person who does harm to others)
Derivation:
decay (fall into decay or ruin)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Luxuriously self-indulgent
Context example:
I spent a decadent day at a spa
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
Synonyms:
decadent; fin-de-siecle
Context example:
a group of effete self-professed intellectuals
Similar:
immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)
Derivation:
decadence; decadency (the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities)
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