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dec·a·dent

 (dĕk′ə-dənt, dĭ-kād′nt)
adj.
1. Being in a state of decline or decay.
2. Marked by or providing unrestrained gratification; self-indulgent.
3. often Decadent Of or relating to literary Decadence.
n.
1. A person in a condition or process of mental or moral decay.
2. often Decadent A member of the Decadence movement.
[French décadent, back-formation from décadence, decadence; see decadence.]
dec′a·dent·ly adv.
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decadent

(ˈdɛkədənt)
adj
1. characterized by decay or decline, as in being self-indulgent or morally corrupt
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) belonging to a period of decline in artistic standards
n
3. a decadent person
4. (Literary & Literary Critical Movements) (often capital) one of a group of French and English writers of the late 19th century whose works were characterized by refinement of style and a tendency towards the artificial and abnormal
ˈdecadently adv
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dec•a•dent

(ˈdɛk ə dənt, dɪˈkeɪd nt)

adj.
1. characterized by or given to decadence.
2. (often cap.) of or like the decadents.
n.
3. a person who is decadent.
4. (often cap.) any of a group of writers, esp. of late 19th-century France, whose work stressed refinement of style and a content of artificiality, perverseness, the bizarre, despair, etc.
[1830–40]
dec′a•dent•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.decadent - a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
bad person - a person who does harm to others
Adj.1.decadent - 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"
effete
indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents"
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decadent

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Translations
مُنْحَط، مُنْحَل
dekadentnízpustlý
dekadent
dekadens
spilltur
dekadentný
ahlâk düzeyi düşük olan

decadent

[ˈdekədənt] ADJ [habits, person] → decadente
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decadent

[ˈdɛkədənt] adj → décadent(e)
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decadent

adj → dekadent
n (Liter) → Vertreter(in) m(f) → der Dekadenz, Décadent m (geh)
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decadent

[ˈdɛkəd/ənt] adj → decadente
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decadence

(ˈdekədəns) noun
1. a falling from high to low standards in morals or the arts. the decadence of the late Roman empire.
2. the state of having low or incorrect standards of behaviour; immorality. He lived a life of decadence.
ˈdecadent adjective
a decadent young man.
decadence ends in -ence (not -ance).
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In Chapter IV we left the drama at that point, toward the middle of the sixteenth century, when the Mystery Plays had largely declined and Moralities and Interlude-Farces, themselves decadent, were sharing in rather confused rivalry that degree of popular interest which remained unabsorbed by the religious, political, and social ferment.
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`I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
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Their collection does not confine Decadence solely to the fin de siecle as Karl Beckson's famous Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's: Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1981) does, but refreshingly broadens its timeline by tracing its development in the 1830s and beyond, and even drawing special attention to its roots: the profligacy of the Roman Empire.
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