Hypertext Webster Gateway: "decadent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a.
Decaying; deteriorating.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Decadent \De*ca"dent\, n.
One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one
characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who
are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a
certain school of modern French writers.
The decadents and [ae]sthetes, and certain types of
realists. --C. L. Dana.
The business men of a great State allow their State to
be represented in Congress by ``decadents''. --The
Century.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
decadent
adj : 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" [syn: {effete}]
n : a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or
artistically)
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