Effete - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ɪˈfiːt|
Brit.
|ɪˈfiːt|
adjective
- affected, overrefined, and effeminate
the young man spoke in effete, accented English
- deprived of vigor and the ability to be effectivefundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished
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...the soft, effete society that marked the final years of the Roman empire...
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