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 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 - 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
Effete - Definition, Meaning, and Examples in English Effete describes something that is no longer capable of effective action or is lacking in vitality It can refer to a person, organization, or even a culture that has become weak, indulgent, or ineffective, often due to overindulgence or excess
effete - Wiktionary, the free dictionary 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 They used rock'n'roll as a weapon against itself