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adj. Depleted of vitality, force, or effectiveness; exhausted: the final, effete period of the baroque style.

adj. Marked by self-indulgence, triviality, or decadence: an effete group of self-professed intellectuals.

adj. Overrefined; effeminate.

adj. No longer productive; infertile.

adj. Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.

adj. Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.

adj. Decadent, self-indulgent.

adj. No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

Past bearing; functionless, as a result of age or exhaustion.

Hence Having the energies worn out or exhausted; become incapable of efficient action; barren of results.

Synonyms Unproductive, unfruitful, unprolific.

Spent, worn out.

An obsolete spelling of effete.

adj. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay

"So quipped Gore Vidal, after being told by William F. Buckley, Jr. that if he didn't stop calling the effete reactionary a crypto-Nazi, the "queer" would get socked "in the goddamned face.""

indulgent   

effetely    effeteness   

barren    sterile    exhausted   

Crete    Deet    Delete    Fleet    Grete    Marguerite    Pete    Piet    Seat    Skeat   

effeminate    unfruitful    decadent    infertile    corrupt    degenerate    bourgeois    feudal    worn-out    despotic