decadent

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: dec=a=dent

OXFORD DICTIONARY

decadent, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a in a state of moral or cultural deterioration; showing or characterized by decadence. b of a period of decadence.
2 self-indulgent.
--n. a decadent person.

Derivative

decadently adv.

Etymology

F d{eacute}cadent (as DECADENCE)

THESAURUS

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