Antonyms for effete
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ih-feet |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈfit |
Definition of effete
Origin :- 1620s, from Latin effetus (usually in fem. effeta) "exhausted, unproductive, worn out (with bearing offspring), past bearing," literally "that has given birth," from a lost verb, *efferi, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fetus "childbearing, offspring" (see fetus). Figurative use is earliest in English; literal use is rare. Sense of "exhausted" is 1660s; that of "intellectually or morally exhausted" (1790) led to "decadent" (19c.).
- adj spoiled, exhausted
- adj unproductive
- No mistaking you for anything but what you are—the sickly product of an effete civilisation.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- Only look at the theological quiddities of effete scholasticism.
- Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
- They call us rough, and we try to get even by terming them effete.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Mother » by Arthur Stringer
- In fine, it will become old and effete, no less truly than the individual.
- Extract from : « Natural Law in the Spiritual World » by Henry Drummond
- She scorned the suggestion that a bath-room be added; an effete idea.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Arethusa » by Francis Barton Fox
- Or was it that those other girls beside her elbow were effete and colourless?
- Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray
- For the Corporation of the City of London is so effete that we have no sympathy for it!
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, December 29th 1894 » by Various
- "They regard it as the swan-song of the effete British," said O'Rane.
- Extract from : « Sonia Between two Worlds » by Stephen McKenna
- Think of that, ye who talk of the uncommercialism of effete Europe!
- Extract from : « Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces » by Francis Miltoun
- The effete and placid Thedor was supported by a Douma (Council) of five.
- Extract from : « The Rise of the Russian Empire » by Hector H. Munro
Synonyms for effete
- barren
- burnt out
- corrupt
- debased
- decadent
- decayed
- declining
- decrepit
- degenerate
- dissipated
- dissolute
- drained
- enervated
- enfeebled
- far-gone
- feeble
- fruitless
- immoral
- impotent
- infecund
- infertile
- obsolete
- overrefined
- overripe
- played out
- soft
- spent
- sterile
- unfruitful
- unprolific
- vitiated
- washed-out
- wasted
- weak
- worn out
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