What does effete mean in English? Meaning of effete definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "effete": marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
Adjective
Meaning: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decayExample: a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility
a group of effete self-professed intellectualsSynonyms: decadent
effeteSimilar: indulgentAdjective: (obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.v: 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 she is still the same, and not old or consumed.1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.v: 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 she is still the same, and not old or consumed.(now rare) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent. 1929, George Macaulay Trevelyan, History of England: From 1485 to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne, 1714, page 457: Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.1929, George Macaulay Trevelyan, History of England: From 1485 to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne, 1714, page 457: Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.Effeminate. 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 27: a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 27: a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.Synonyms:
corrupt, debased, decadent, decayed, decrepit, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, drained, enervated, feeble, immoral, obsolete, soft, spent, washed-out, wasted, weak, worn out, burnt out, declining, enfeebled, far-gone, overrefined, overripe, played out, vitiated, barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, unprolific,
Antonyms:
capable, tireless, productive, useful, working, capable, tireless, productive, useful, working,
