decadent

decadent

adjective

Definition of DECADENT

1

having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit <social critics claimed that their culture had become decadent and weak>

Synonyms decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up

Related Words effeminate, overrefined, precious; decaying, declining, dying, failing, waning; debilitated, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, frail, languid, sapped, soft, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpy; dissolute, immoral; debased, debauched, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute

Antonyms undecadent

2

having or showing lowered moral character or standards <opponents of gambling casinos claim that gambling is a decadent form of entertainment>

Synonyms debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, jackleg, libertine, loose, perverse, perverted, rakehell (or rakehelly), rakish, reprobate, sick, unclean, unwholesome, warped

Related Words bent [chiefly British], crooked, cutthroat, dishonest, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous; contaminated, spoiled, tainted; bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, nefarious, sinful, vicious, wicked

Near Antonyms incorruptible; ethical, honest, principled; good, moral, righteous, virtuous

Antonyms pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted

3

given to or marked by excessive gratification of one's desires <the impressionable heiress couldn't resist the decadent temptations of the jet-set life>

Synonyms decadent, indulgent, luxurious, overindulgent, self-indulgent, sybaritic

Related Words carnal, fleshly, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous; masturbatory, onanistic, self-absorbed, self-obsessed; gluttonous, greedy, rapacious, voracious; extravagant, incontinent, intemperate, reckless, splurging, uncontrolled, wanton

Near Antonyms abstemious, abstinent, continent, sober, temperate; ascetic (also ascetical), austere, spartan; disciplined, self-controlled, self-disciplined, self-governed

Antonyms self-abnegating, self-denying