decadent

1. 1.

   luxuriously self-indulgent

   “I spent a decadent day at a spa”

   Similarindulgent
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsfin-de-siecle

   Similarimmoral

   French

1. 1.

   a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)

   Broaderbad person

Other forms of decadent

plural

decadents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decadent

What does decadent mean?

decadent means "luxuriously self-indulgent". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decadent?

decadent has 3 syllables: dec-a-dent. The stress falls on "dec". In IPA it is /ˈdɛkədənt/.

What is another word for decadent?

Close synonyms include fin-de-siecle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decadent a common word?

decadent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.