Adjective:

पतनो-मुख, क्षय होनेवाला, पतनशील, पतनोन्मुख, अवनति का,

decadent's Usage Examples:

Curiously, Apotheosis is used by the Latin Christian poet, Prudentius (c. 400), as the title of a poem defending orthodox views on the person of Christ and other points of doctrine - the affectation of a decadent age.

When the Spaniards arrived the Aymaras had been long under the Inca domination, and were in a decadent state.

It was Vittorino's care to see that, while their memories were duly stored with words and facts, their judgment should be formed by critical analysis, attention to style, and comparison of the authors of a decadent age with those who were acknowledged classics.

The Paraguayan occupation left the town partially in ruins, and it remained in a decadent condition until near the end of the century, when reviving industries in the state and a renewal of railway construction promoted its commercial activity and growth.

The hostility of the decadent caliphate of Cairo was the less dangerous; and though Baldwin I.

decadent Aegean products and their wide distribution become more marked than ever.

Many times already during that evening of a decadent The bat~ civilization, their threatening presence had seemed ii~asion.

Upon the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 the Chiquitos became decadent, and now number short of 20,000.

All her neighbours were either decadent or exhausted states; and France, the most powerful of the Western powers, was her firm ally.

As in glyptic so in poetic art, the Hellenism of the time was decadent and Alexandrine rather than Attic of the best period.

Synonyms:

indulgent, effete,

Antonyms:

unpermissive, abstemious, nonindulgent,