Decadent

Adjective

 * 1) Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) Luxuriously self-indulgent.
 * 2) * ''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!

Noun

 * 1) A person affected by moral decay.

Adverbs for Decadent
cankerously; decrepitly; effetely; corrosively; corruptibly; irreparably; incurably; irremediably; lamentably; deplorably; pitifully; viciously; degenerately; corruptly; unbelievably; astoundingly; pitiably; hopelessly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
, from decadentia:, from  decadens:, present participle of  decado:. Cognate with French decadent:

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: упадъчен
 * German:
 * Icelandic: hnignandi ; hrörnandi ; spilltur, spillt , spillt ; úrkynjaður , úrkynjuð , úrkynjað


 * Italian:


 * German:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: декадент


 * Italian:

Related terms

 * decadence
 * decay

Anagrams

 * decanted