| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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| decayable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: putrefiable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| decayed | (adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | Synonyms: rotted, rotten |
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| deceased | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, departed, gone |
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| deceitful | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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| (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
| decideable | (adjective) capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system | - |
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| decided | (adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: distinct |
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| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| deciduous | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season | - |
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| (adjective) (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth | - |
| decimal | (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: denary |
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| decipherable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, readable |
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| deciphered | (adjective) converted from cryptic to intelligible language | - |
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| decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
| (adjective) unmistakable | - |
| deckled | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, featheredged |
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| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| declarable | (adjective) that must be declared | - |
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| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| declared | (adjective) made known or openly avowed | - |
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| (adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | Synonyms: stated |
| declassified | (adjective) having had security classification removed | - |
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| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| decollete | (adjective) (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline | Synonyms: low-cut, low-necked |
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| decomposable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: analyzable |
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| decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| decorated | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: adorned |
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| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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| decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| decumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, recumbent |
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| decurved | (adjective) bent down or curved downward | - |
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| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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