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Dissipated vs Decadent - What's the difference?

dissipated | decadent |

As adjectives the difference between dissipated and decadent

is that dissipated is to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures while decadent is characterized by moral or cultural decline.

As a verb dissipated

is past tense of dissipate.

As a noun decadent is

a person affected by moral decay.

dissipated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dissipate)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • to have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures
  • * James dissipated his savings with all of his addictions.
  • Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure

    • Synonyms

    * dissolute * intemperate

    decadent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by moral or cultural decline.
  • * - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
    • 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.
  • * "
    • Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent ! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person affected by moral decay.

    • Related terms

    * decadence * decay

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