Definizione monolingua

decadent

decadent (plural decadents)

1. A person affected by moral decay.

decadent (comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent)

1. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
   • 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.

2. Luxuriously self-indulgent.
   • Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode The Devils Hands Are Idle Playthings

     Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!

Definizione dizionario decadent

	decadente
	Characterized by moral or cultural decline
	Characterized by decadence.

	decadentista
	person affected by moral decay

Altri significati:

A person affected by moral decay.

Characterized by moral or cultural decline.

Luxuriously self-indulgent.