decadentadj.n.

/ˈdɛkədənt/

/dɪˈkeɪdənt/

Etymology: < decadence n.: see -ent suffix. So modern French décadent (Hatzfeld).

A. adj.

1. That is in a state of decay or decline; falling off or deteriorating from a prior condition of excellence, vitality, prosperity, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition > having fallen

forlornc1386

fallen1550

ruinous1558

ruinate1562

declined1591

ruinated1592

ruined1596

lapsed1667

prolapsed1698

broken-down1816

decadent1837

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 15 Those decadent ages in which no Ideal either grows or blossoms?

1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands Introd. 50 A grey, old town with an air of decadent respectability about it.

1885 Mag. Art Sept. 477/1 To establish in his kingdom the already decadent and modern art of Italy.

a. Said of a French school which affects to belong to an age of decadence in literature and art.

ΚΠ

1885 Figaro 22 Sept. Le décadent n'a pas d'idées. Il n'en veut pas. Il aime mieux les mots..C'est au lecteur à comprendre et à mettre des idées sous les mots. Le lecteur s'y refuse généralement. De là, mépris du décadent pour le lecteur.]

1888 Sat. Rev. 6 Oct. 417/2 M. Darmesteter has written in a style occasionally a little decadent and over-elaborate.

1889 Daily News 8 Nov. 5/2 A wonderful piece of ‘decadent’ French, in a queer new style, as if Rabelais's Limousin had been reborn, with a fresh manner of being unintelligible.

b. Said of other schools of literature and art characterized by decadence; spec. = aesthetic adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally

wateryc1230

polite?a1500

meagre1539

over-laboured1579

bald1589

spiritless1592

light1597

meretricious1633

standing1661

effectual1662

airy1664

severe1665

correct1676

enervatea1704

free1728

classic1743

academic1752

academical1752

chaste1753

nerveless1763

epic1769

crude1786

effective1790

creative1791

soulless1794

mannered1796

manneristical1830

manneristic1837

subjective1840

inartisticala1849

abstract1857

inartistic1859

literary1900

period1905

atmospheric1908

dateless1908

atmosphered1920

non-naturalistic1925

self-indulgent1926

free-styled1933

soft-centred1935

freestyle1938

pseudish1938

decadent1942

post-human1944

kitschy1946

faux-naïf1958

spare1965

1942 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 324 The artist is labelled ‘decadent’ who departs from the Salon norm, or that of the Royal Academy, by the Hitlerite pundit of ‘sanity’.

1958 Times 20 May 3/7 The last public appearance of Dadaism was that of an aesthetic outlaw under the Nazi ban and during the campaign of 1937 against ‘Decadent Art’.

1961 M. Levy Studio Dict. Art Terms 39 Decadent movement, a critical and disparaging term sometimes used loosely as a synonym for the Aesthetic Movement.

B. n.

A decadent person; a member of a school of decadent literature or art.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period

mannerist1695

romanticist1821

trecentist1821

classicist1827

romantic1827

expressionist1850

classicalist1851

Gothicist1861

literalist1862

realist1868

modernist1879

verist1884

classic1885

symbolist1888

decadent1890

veritist1894

neoclassicist1899

neo-romantic1899

renaissancer1899

social realist1909

avant-garde1910

futurist1911

pasticheur1912

Bloomsbury1917

postmodern1917

pre-Romantic1918

Dadaist1919

German expressionist1920

super-realist1925

surrealist1925

New Romantic1930

brutalist1934

socialist-realist1935

avant-gardist1940

New Negro1953

neo-modernist1958

bricoleur1965

popster1965

sound artist1966

performance artist1975

1890 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 602/2 The very noisy and motley crew of younger writers in France..naturalists, decadents, scientific critics, and what not.

1894 M. Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. II. 284 English literature..must fall at length into the hands of the decadents.

1906 R. Brooke Let. Jan. (1968) 37 I contrive to keep the mens insana in corpore sano which is all the English decadent may hope for.

Derivatives

ˈdecadently adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adverb] > qualities generally

strongly1642

artistly1664

correctlya1704

meretriciously1755

boldly1765

chastely1815

literally1816

airily1823

stylistically1889

decadently1892

1892 Sat. Rev. 23 Apr. 492/2 It is very prettily and decadently written.

Draft additions September 2021

In neutral or positive sense: luxuriously self-indulgent or sumptuous; (esp. of food) very rich or sweet. Cf. earlier decadence n. Additions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > rich or luxurious

rich1340

lecherous1474

gaudy1540

voluptuous1544

high1616

genteel1660

decadent1967

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective]

delicatea1393

deliciousa1393

voluptuous?a1475

pampereda1529

volupteousa1535

wealy1545

lascivious1589

smoothed1600

luxurious1606

luxuriose1727

high life1733

Vie Parisienne1890

decadent1967

1967 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 19/4 (advt.) We've gone back to making the decadent chocolates of that Vienna of 1912.

1990 Sunday Express 7 Jan. (Mag.) 37/2 Don't leave Brittany without sampling the most divinely decadent French cake.., a melting butter-swamped version of lardy cake.

2017 Irish Daily Mirror (Nexis) 19 July 24 Decadent dressing at Christmas is all about dazzling metallics and shimmering sequins.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	decadent
释义	decadentadj.n. /ˈdɛkədənt//dɪˈkeɪdənt/ Etymology: < decadence n.: see -ent suffix. So modern French décadent (Hatzfeld). A. adj. 1. That is in a state of decay or decline; falling off or deteriorating from a prior condition of excellence, vitality, prosperity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition > having fallen forlornc1386 fallen1550 ruinous1558 ruinate1562 declined1591 ruinated1592 ruined1596 lapsed1667 prolapsed1698 broken-down1816 decadent1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 15 Those decadent ages in which no Ideal either grows or blossoms? 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands Introd. 50 A grey, old town with an air of decadent respectability about it. 1885 Mag. Art Sept. 477/1 To establish in his kingdom the already decadent and modern art of Italy. 2. a. Said of a French school which affects to belong to an age of decadence in literature and art. ΚΠ 1885 Figaro 22 Sept. Le décadent n'a pas d'idées. Il n'en veut pas. Il aime mieux les mots..C'est au lecteur à comprendre et à mettre des idées sous les mots. Le lecteur s'y refuse généralement. De là, mépris du décadent pour le lecteur.] 1888 Sat. Rev. 6 Oct. 417/2 M. Darmesteter has written in a style occasionally a little decadent and over-elaborate. 1889 Daily News 8 Nov. 5/2 A wonderful piece of ‘decadent’ French, in a queer new style, as if Rabelais's Limousin had been reborn, with a fresh manner of being unintelligible. b. Said of other schools of literature and art characterized by decadence; spec. = aesthetic adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally wateryc1230 polite?a1500 meagre1539 over-laboured1579 bald1589 spiritless1592 light1597 meretricious1633 standing1661 effectual1662 airy1664 severe1665 correct1676 enervatea1704 free1728 classic1743 academic1752 academical1752 chaste1753 nerveless1763 epic1769 crude1786 effective1790 creative1791 soulless1794 mannered1796 manneristical1830 manneristic1837 subjective1840 inartisticala1849 abstract1857 inartistic1859 literary1900 period1905 atmospheric1908 dateless1908 atmosphered1920 non-naturalistic1925 self-indulgent1926 free-styled1933 soft-centred1935 freestyle1938 pseudish1938 decadent1942 post-human1944 kitschy1946 faux-naïf1958 spare1965 1942 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 324 The artist is labelled ‘decadent’ who departs from the Salon norm, or that of the Royal Academy, by the Hitlerite pundit of ‘sanity’. 1958 Times 20 May 3/7 The last public appearance of Dadaism was that of an aesthetic outlaw under the Nazi ban and during the campaign of 1937 against ‘Decadent Art’. 1961 M. Levy Studio Dict. Art Terms 39 Decadent movement, a critical and disparaging term sometimes used loosely as a synonym for the Aesthetic Movement. B. n. A decadent person; a member of a school of decadent literature or art. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 1890 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 602/2 The very noisy and motley crew of younger writers in France..naturalists, decadents, scientific critics, and what not. 1894 M. Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. II. 284 English literature..must fall at length into the hands of the decadents. 1906 R. Brooke Let. Jan. (1968) 37 I contrive to keep the mens insana in corpore sano which is all the English decadent may hope for. Derivatives ˈdecadently adv. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adverb] > qualities generally strongly1642 artistly1664 correctlya1704 meretriciously1755 boldly1765 chastely1815 literally1816 airily1823 stylistically1889 decadently1892 1892 Sat. Rev. 23 Apr. 492/2 It is very prettily and decadently written. Draft additions September 2021 In neutral or positive sense: luxuriously self-indulgent or sumptuous; (esp. of food) very rich or sweet. Cf. earlier decadence n. Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > rich or luxurious rich1340 lecherous1474 gaudy1540 voluptuous1544 high1616 genteel1660 decadent1967 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] delicatea1393 deliciousa1393 voluptuous?a1475 pampereda1529 volupteousa1535 wealy1545 lascivious1589 smoothed1600 luxurious1606 luxuriose1727 high life1733 Vie Parisienne1890 decadent1967 1967 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 19/4 (advt.) We've gone back to making the decadent chocolates of that Vienna of 1912. 1990 Sunday Express 7 Jan. (Mag.) 37/2 Don't leave Brittany without sampling the most divinely decadent French cake.., a melting butter-swamped version of lardy cake. 2017 Irish Daily Mirror (Nexis) 19 July 24 Decadent dressing at Christmas is all about dazzling metallics and shimmering sequins. 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