Effete

What do we mean by effete?

Characterized by extreme refinement or self-indulgence, often to the point of unworldiness or decadence: adjective

Having or reflecting an attitude of social superiority; pretentious or snobbish. adjective

Depleted of vitality, force, or effectiveness; exhausted. adjective

Effeminate. adjective

No longer productive; infertile. adjective

An obsolete spelling of effete.

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.

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. adjective

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

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

Decadent, self-indulgent. adjective

Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay adjective

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

Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.

Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.

(of a person) Affected, overrefined

(of a person) affected, overrefinded, and ineffectual: no longer capable of effective action... Urban Dictionary

Two overly underrated artists from Turku, Finland Urban Dictionary

A cuckold who got cheated on by a woman who had a baby with a gay senator and who cheated on the aforementioned cuckold with a beet farm owner Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to effete:
effete, effet.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word effete:
impudent, figures, henry, rock, rather.

Words that rhyme with effete:
beat, browbeat, discrete, meet, eat, sheet, discreet, seat, treat, street, heat, receipt, elite, sweet, suite, complete, obsolete, neat, meat, retreat, concrete, feet, fleet, feat, replete, conceit, sleet, mete, deceit, defeat, deplete, cheat, beet, compete, athlete, wheat, repeat, greet, upbeat, bittersweet, cleat, delete, peat, petite, backseat, tweet, gamete, st, skeet, bleat, pete, pleat, overeat, secrete, heartbeat, spreadsheet, worksheet, deadbeat, buckwheat, deet, offbeat, teat, leet, crete, indiscreet, incomplete, neet, teet, excrete, piet, parakeet, unseat, mesquite, creat, marguerite, time sheet, drumbeat, mistreat, gleet, downbeat, peet, balance sheet, mincemeat, amit, overheat, creaght, crabmeat, flete, love seat, poteat, high street, wall street, grete, noncompete, trick or treat, dead heat, hot seat, car seat, speet, white heat.

Adjectives that are often used to describe effete:
nigh, plumb.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective effete:
matter, matters, east, civilization, cells, material, products, aristocracy, materials, system, society, monarchies, snobs, mind, world, corps, institutions, race, civilisation, empire, government, monarchy, culture, dynasty, snob, europe, substances, erythrocytes, intellectuals, aristocrat, corpuscles, age, institution, class, superstition, tradition, forms, aristocrats, blood, races, product, tissues, country, civilizations, condition, nations, tissue, easterners, particles, languors, body, nation, easterner, despotism, luxury, nobility, christianity, traditions, rulers, democracies, generation, court, style, administration, ideas, customs, rule, lime, art, aestheticism, governments, elite, air, theology, feudalism, aristocracies, superstitions, substance, refinement, regime.

Consonant match to effete:
effort, afoot, au fait, ophite, effet, e-fit, oophyte, hoof it, e fit, eifert, offutt, half height, a fight, a fit, f it, half it, her foot, hough it, off foot, off it, who fight, who fit.

Words that sound like effete:
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