effete
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
- "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
Adj
- exhausted, spent, worn-out.
- Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
- Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
- Affected, overrefined.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin effētus (“exhausted”, literally “that has given birth”), 1620s.
Synonyms
affected, anemic, breakable, broken-down, consumed, damaged, debilitated, decadent, decrepit, delicate, depleted, dickless, dissipated, done up, effete, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, expended, faint, feeble, fey, finished, flimsy, forworn, fragile, frail, gone, harmed, hoity-toity, hurt, impaired, impotent, incontinent, infirm, injured, languid, low, overrefined, pansified, powerless, precious, pretentious, prostrate, prostrated, puny, raddled, recherché, resistless, sapped, slightsoft, smug, softened, spent, stagy, stilted, susceptible, tender, theatrical, tired, torpid, unresistant, used up, vincible, vulnerable, wasted, weak, weakened, weary, weedy, wimpy, Woosterian, worn out, yielding
Scrabble Score: 12
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