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- EFFETE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Effete derives from Latin effetus, meaning "no longer fruitful," and for a brief time in English it was used to describe an animal no longer capable of producing offspring For most of its existence in English, however, the use of "effete" has been entirely figurative
- EFFETE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
EFFETE definition: lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent See examples of effete used in a sentence
- Effete - definition of effete by The Free Dictionary
Characterized by extreme refinement or self-indulgence, often to the point of unworldiness or decadence: "the effete taste of people surfeited with expensive comforts" (R P T Davenport-Hines)
- EFFETE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
EFFETE definition: 1 weak and without much power: 2 more typical of a woman than of a man 3 weak and without much… Learn more
- EFFETE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless
- effete adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of effete adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- effete - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective effete (comparative more effete, superlative most effete) (obsolete, of substances, quantities etc) exhausted, spent, worn-out Synonyms: low, used up; see also Thesaurus: depleted
- Effete - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
The origin of the word effete is a little unexpected Coming from the Latin effetus "out of, past childbearing," effete meant "exhausted, spent" long before it acquired the sense of morally exhausted and overly refined
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