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decadent
English
Alternative forms
- décadent
Etymology
From French décadent, back-formation from décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin decadens, present participle of decad? (“sink, fall”). Cognate with French décadent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?k?d?nt/
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.
- 1992, Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
- Luxuriously self-indulgent.
- 2003, 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!
- 2003, Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
Synonyms
- (luxuriously self-indulgent): sinful (colloquial)
Translations
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.
- L. Douglas
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- decanted
Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin decadens.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /d?.k??dent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /d?.k??den/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /de.ka?dent/
Adjective
decadent (masculine and feminine plural decadents)
- decadent
Related terms
- decadència
- decaure
Further reading
- “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.
Romanian
Etymology
From French décadent
Adjective
decadent m or n (feminine singular decadent?, masculine plural decaden?i, feminine and neuter plural decadente)
- decadent
Declension
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decedent
English
Etymology
From Latin decedens, present active participle of decedere (“to depart, die”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??si?d?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??si.d?nt/
Noun
decedent (plural decedents)
- (law, chiefly US) A dead person.
Translations
Adjective
decedent (not comparable)
- Removing; departing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ash to this entry?)
See also
- deceased
Latin
Verb
d?c?dent
- third-person plural future active indicative of d?c?d?
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