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What (who) is EFFETE - definition
Effete
·adj 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.
effete
a.
1.
Barren, unprolific, unfruitful, fruitless, addle.
2.
Decayed, spent, exhausted, wasted, worn out.
effete
[?'fi:t]
¦ adjective
1. affected, over-refined, and ineffectual.
(of a man) weak or effeminate.
2. no longer capable of effective action.
Derivatives
effetely adverb
effeteness noun
Origin
C17: from L. effetus 'worn out by bearing young'; related to fetus.
Examples of use of EFFETE
1. If Obama is deemed to be an effete, out–of–touch yuppie, then the effete–yuppie media Establishment that‘s embraced him must be equally oblivious and/or indifferent to the sentiments of the common folk." Is the right reassessing Hillary?
2. Equally difficult to overestimate is the importance of its boss — a tiny, effete, business genius.
3. James Burnham‘s 1'64 book contended that effete liberalism would cause the collapse of western civilisation.
4. They watch lazy and effete regulators failing to control pin–striped crooks.
5. However effete this sounds, some new things we just shouldn‘t live without.