décadent
/dˈɛkədənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "Now this is the tale of A. B. / The grotesque black and white devotee, / The décadent fakir, / The Yellow Bookmaker, / The funny-man over the sea."
- "“Is it not that we shall all prize classic simplicity, in phrase or form, more than any jewelled splendour of décadent luxury?” said the Lay Figure."
- "It is not always easy for the uninitiated to discover the inner connections between proper names and their Décadent meaning."
- "Nowadays—O irony of fate!—Moscow is enthusiastic over the Russian “Empire,” the “décadent style,” and Somov, as she was, yesterday, over Vasnetzov, Old-Russian palaces, cupboards, fairy-tales, and “bylinas” (old hero ballads)."
- "The chalky pallor of his skin remarked upon by the narrator suggests, if not the décadent, at least the intellectual: he does indeed possess highly developed intellectual faculties, main evidence of which are his brilliant chess achievements."
- "The Décadent was speaking to his soul— / Poor useless thing, he said, / Why did God burden me with such as thou? / The body were enough, / The body gives me all."