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dekadent — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • decadent adj Showing moral or cultural decline through excessive indulgence.
  • degenerate adj Having declined from a former, better state; deteriorated.
  • effete adj exhausted, spent, worn-out.

Senses

dekadent is used for these senses in English:

  • degenerate (of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
  • 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.

degenerate — full definition

  1. adj Having declined from a former, better state; deteriorated.
  2. noun A person seen as morally corrupt or of poor character.
  3. verb To decline in quality, structure, or character over time.

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