- decadent⇄adj. 1. falling off; growing worse; declining; decaying.
Ex. a decadent nation.
2. of or like the French decadents. - decadent⇄adv. decadently.
- decadent⇄decadent, adjective, noun.
- decadent⇄noun 1. a decadent person.
Ex. He who sees it only from a gondola gets little more than a glimpse of the lifeless Venice of the decadents (Guido Piovene).
2. one of a group of French writers and artists, such as Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Mal