Associations to the word «Decadent»

Wiktionary

DECADENT, adjective. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
DECADENT, adjective. Luxuriously self-indulgent.
DECADENT, noun. A person affected by moral decay.

Dictionary definition

DECADENT, noun. A person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically).
DECADENT, adjective. Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats