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effete
effete /ɪˈfiːt/ adjective
1 F0 LITERARY DISAPPROVING weak and without much power: » With nothing to do all day the aristocracy had grown effete and lazy.Thesaurus+: ↑Weakness and vulnerabilityThesaurus+: ↑Gender-related attributes , ↑Kinds of women , ↑Kinds of men2 F0 DISAPPROVING more typical of a woman than of a man Thesaurus+: ↑Weakness and vulnerabilityThesaurus+: ↑Gender-related attributes , ↑Kinds of women , ↑Kinds of men |