What does decadent mean?
Decadent means Characterized by moral or cultural decline..
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/ˈdɛkədənt/ · adjective
Characterized by moral or cultural decline..
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.
2003, Hedonismbot in the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!
L. Douglas He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
Use decadent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Decadent means Characterized by moral or cultural decline..
Common synonyms include corrupted, degenerate, aberrant, corrupt.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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