Definizione monolingua

effete

effete (comparative more effete, superlative most effete)

1. (obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.v:

     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. (now rare) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
3. Decadent, self-indulgent; effeminate.

Definizione dizionario effete

esausto

Altri significati:

Decadent, self-indulgent; effeminate.

(now rare) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.

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