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Effete
/ɪˈfiːt/
Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
📖 Definitions of "Effete"
adjective
- 1
Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
- 2
Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
- 3
Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
- 4
(of a person) Affected, overrefined
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Effete"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| decadent | Luxuriously self-indulgent. |
| indulgent | Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; |
| exhausted | Very tired; zonked (out). |
| feeble | Deficient in physical strength. |
| weak | Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability. |
| languorsnoun | (uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this. |
| exolete | (obsolete) That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete. |
| forwearied | (obsolete) Worn out, exhausted. |
| wornverb | Damaged and shabby as a result of much use. |
| exhaustnoun | A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system. |
| failedverb | unsuccessful |
| dried out | Old; worn out; useless. |
| foreworn | (archaic) Synonym of forworn. |
| effectuous | (obsolete) Effective; efficacious. |
| goneverb | Away, having left. |
| obsolete | (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer). |
| superannuated | Retired or discarded due to age. |
| outworn | out of date |
| defatigateverb | (rare) To tire or make weary. |
| absolete | Obsolete form of obsolete. [(of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer).] |
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