effete

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈfiːt/    美 /ɪˈfit/|/ɛˈfit/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. exhausted, spent, worn-out. obsolete
    — Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.
  2. Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
    — 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.
  3. Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
    — In fact, one obvious project of the MLF […] is to counter the idea that lobster is unusually luxe or unhealthy, suitable only for effete palates or the occasional blow-the-diet treat.
  4. Affected, overrefined.
    — The Port Washington players all wear matching socks and shorts and tucked-in shirts. They look sharp but effete, a mannequinish aspect to them.

词形变化

more effete comparative most effete superlative effœte alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
effetely effeteness noneffete uneffete

词源

From Latin effētus (“exhausted”, literally “that has given birth”), 1620s.
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