effete
11effete — ef|fete [ıˈfi:t US e ] adj formal [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: effetus, from fetus producing young ] 1.) weak and powerless in a way that you dislike ▪ an attack against effete intellectuals 2.) an effete man looks or behaves like a woman …
12effete — [[t]ɪfi͟ːt[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. [FORMAL] ...the charming but effete Russian gentry of the 1840s and 1850s …
13effete — adjective formal 1 weak and powerless in a way that you dislike: an attack against effete intellectuals 2 looking or behaving like a woman: an effete, languid young man effetely adverb …
14effete — does not mean effeminate and weak, as it is often used. It means exhausted and barren. An effete poet is not necessarily foppish, but rather someone whose creative impulses are spent …
15effete — ef•fete [[t]ɪˈfit[/t]] adj. 1) lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent: an effete, overrefined society[/ex] 2) exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out 3) unable to produce; sterile • Etymology: 1615–25; < L effēta exhausted from… …
16effete — /əˈfit / (say uh feet) adjective 1. that has lost its vigour or energy; exhausted; worn out. 2. unable to produce. 3. weak and ineffectual as a result of over refinement: an effete intellectual. {Latin effētus exhausted by bearing young, from ex… …
17effete — adj. [L. effetus, exhausted] No longer capable of fertility; barren …
18effete — adjective /ɪˈfiːt,ɪˈfit/ a) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent. Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that… …
19effete — Synonyms and related words: ablated, all in, anemic, arid, asthenic, ausgespielt, barren, blah, blank, bleary, bloodless, bootless, burned out, burnt up, characterless, chicken, cold, colorless, coming apart, consumed, counterproductive, cowardly …
20effete — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. exhausted, spent, depleted; barren, sterile, fruitless; weak, corrupt, decadent. See deterioration, uselessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking vigor] Syn. weakened, decadent, exhausted, spent,… …
