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Definition of decadent in English Turkish dictionary
- {s} çökmüş
- itibarını yitiren
- (isim) çökmekte olan sanatçı
- {s} çökmekte olan
- {s} yıkılmış
- {s} gerileyen
- çürümüş
- gözden düşen
- batmış
- {i} çökmekte olan sanatçı
- dekadan
- decadently
- gözden düşerek
- civilization in decline, decadent culture
- düşüş medeniyet, yozlaşmış kültür
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Definition of decadent in English English dictionary
- Luxuriously self-indulgent
Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!.
- A person affected by moral decay
- Characterized by moral or cultural decline
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.
- applied to a certain school of modern French writers
- {i} one who is depraved or immoral, corrupt person
- One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp
- one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; specif
- 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"
- disapproval If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure. the excesses and stresses of their decadent rock 'n' roll lifestyles. + decadence deca·dence The empire had for years been falling into decadence. having low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than serious matters
- {s} depraved, corrupt, immoral, self-indulgent
- a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) 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
- Decaying; deteriorating
- a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
- Decadents
- Group of poets of the end of the 19th century, including some French Symbolists (see Symbolist movement), notably Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine, and the later generation of England's Aesthetic movement (see Aestheticism), notably Arthur Symons and Oscar Wilde. Many nonpoets, including the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans and the artist Aubrey Beardsley, are also often associated with the Decadents. The Decadents emphasized art for art's sake (see Walter Pater), seeing it as autonomous and opposed to nature and to the materialistic preoccupations of industrialized society, and therefore stressed the bizarre, incongruous, and artificial in both their work and their lives
- decadently
- In a decadent manner
- decadently
- depravedly, immorally, degenerately
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de·ca·dentTurkish pronunciation
dekıdıntSynonyms
debased, debauched, decaying, declining, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, evil, gone bad, gone to the dogs, immoral, lost, moribundPronunciation
/ˈdekədənt/ /ˈdɛkədənt/
Etymology
[ 'de-k&-d&nt also ] (adjective.) 1837. Back-formation from decadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin decadens (“decadens”), present participle of Late Latin decado (“sink, fall”). Cognate with French décadentResimler
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