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If you call a person or a lifestyle decadent, you are saying they have low moral standards and chase pleasure instead of serious things — lazy, self-indulgent, maybe corrupt. It can describe art and times in history too. As a noun, a decadent is a person like that. Though actually, on menus and in magazines decadent almost always means ' delicious': a decadent chocolate cake is not evil; it is just very rich. Older, more formal English leans on the moral meaning; younger, commercial English leans on the cake. The tone depends entirely on what you put it next to.
頹廢的、耽溺享樂的（說人時偏批評；說甜點時反而是「奢華好吃」）
組成From French décadent, a back-formation from décadence (see -ent), from Medieval Latin decadentia, from Late Latin, present participle of a verb meaning 'sink, fall; perish', from Latin de- + cadere ('fall').
同家族的字
- decadencethe noun for this way of living or this judged decline
- decadentlythe adverb: in a decadent way
- decaysame Latin root of falling / going downhill
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
decadentadj/ˈdɛkədənt/
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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.
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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!
decadentnoun/ˈdɛkədənt/
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A person affected by moral decay.
- L. Douglas He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。