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say it: DEK-uh-duhnt
decadent is an adjective and noun meaning "luxuriously self-indulgent". It is pronounced /ˈdɛkədənt/ — DEK-uh-duhnt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
French
a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for decadent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.