decadent — meaning in English

English meaning

• decadent adj Showing moral or cultural decline through excessive indulgence.
• effete adj exhausted, spent, worn-out.

Senses

decadent is used for these senses in English:

• decadent Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
• effete Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.

decadent — full definition

1. adj Showing moral or cultural decline through excessive indulgence.
2. adj Luxuriously indulgent, in a pleasurable rather than critical sense.

effete — full definition

1. adj exhausted, spent, worn-out.
2. adj Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
3. adj Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
4. adj Affected, overrefined.

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