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語源

From French décadent, a back-formation from décadence (see -ent), from Medieval Latin dēcadentia, from Late Latin dēcadēns, present participle of dēcadō, dēcidō (“sink, fall; perish”), from Latin dē- + cadō (“fall”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɛkədənt/

形容詞

decadent (comparative more decadent, superlative most decadent)

1. Characterized by moral or cultural decline.

   Synonyms: corrupted, degenerate; see also Thesaurus:immoral

   • 1992, Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire:

     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.

2. Luxuriously self-indulgent.

   Synonyms: epicurean, (colloquial) sinful; see also Thesaurus:hedonistic

   • 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!

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• decadence

名詞

decadent (plural decadents)

1. A person affected by moral decay.
   • L. Douglas

     He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

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• decanted