decadent英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A person affected by moral decay.

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

形容词 adj.

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.
Luxuriously self-indulgent.

— 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!

词形变化

more decadent comparative most decadent superlative décadent alternative decadents plural décadent alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

decadentism decadently nondecadent undecadent

词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).