Definition of effete in English:

effete

adjective ɪˈfiːtəˈfit

1Affected, over-refined, and ineffectual.
（人）矫揉造作的；无用的
effete trendies from art college
艺术学院的矫揉造作、赶时髦的人。
Example sentencesExamples
- A thought: if your opponent has $100 million to portray you as an effete snob, don't go on vacation to a fancy ski resort in Idaho.
- The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable!
- The effete middle class Oxonian dullards despise him as much for being a working class man with big ideas about himself, who insists on speaking in complete sentences and making sense, as for his politics.
- More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
- Being perceived as an effete art student often made the dressing room a very uncomfortable place for me.
- But if losing the Heineken European Cup annoyed the Catalans, then losing the final of the French championships last June to a bunch of effete Parisians made them really sore.
- His successor was hated as an effete playboy.
- German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view effete and probably Anglophile.
- A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices.
- Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine.
- Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are effete liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends.
- I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as effete Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers.
- I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete lefty urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks.
- In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
- When they became more successful, they were worried that the young men would become effete.
- Being far happier sending back despatches from the trenches of war-torn middle-eastern countries, she is none too impressed at the idea of being forced instead to hob-nob with effete Englishmen.
- To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
- They saw us with our floppy fringes and effete mannerisms and went mental.
Synonyms
affected, over-refined, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious, precious, chichi, flowery, mannered
informal twee, la-di-da, pseud
British informal poncey, toffee-nosed
rare alembicated
1. 1.1 No longer capable of effective action.
  衰弱的，无能的
  the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle
  没落贵族的权力开始减弱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
  Europe is weak and effete, a bunch of ingrates who have turned their backs on us after we bailed them out during WWII.
  I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world.
  The effete aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant.
  The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an effete but tenacious aristocracy.
  The aged West has grown rather effete and prefers to avoid ideological confrontation.
  The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an effete world.
  Unfortunately, National Minorities Commission is effete because the persons, who hold positions there, have personal interests above their constitutional obligations.
  For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class.
  You know better than anyone that such obituaries issue from effete societies.
  Synonyms
  weakened, enfeebled, enervated, worn out, exhausted, finished, burnt out, played out, drained, spent, powerless
2. 1.2 (of a man) weak or effeminate.
  he chatted away, exercising his rather effete charm
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the long-awaited final episode, the foursome witnesses the mugging and robbery of an effete, obese man.
  He fluctuates ambiguously between sexual identities: On the one hand, he is hyperbolically heterosexual, with a voracious appetite for women; on the other hand, he is effete and always primped.
  He is effete, a wimpy and spineless figure.
  He also had a certain masculine mystique about him, unlike the intellectual, artistic and sometimes effete men who were part of her set.
  However, in Davenant's masque, the effect is to make men effete, replicating the behaviour of the women they are trying to seduce.
  Most memorable of the main characters was Mr Humphries, senior sales assistant in the menswear department, a camp and effete man, sharp-tongued and as light as a fairy on his feet.
  Yet her effete husband paraded his catamites in front of her; Piers Gaveston even flaunted the Queen's wedding jewellery on his person.
  The public perception of me is that I am camp, effete, effeminate, gay… and I'm not.
  It's 1981: the world has fallen under the spell of music performed by effete blokes in frilly shirts and trowled-on make-up.
  His reputation lies in tatters and popular history paints him as an effete Italian weakling but Bonnie Prince Charlie may yet take his proper place in the roll call of Scotland's most macho freedom fighters.
  While he was large for a boy his age he was unable to mask his feminine voice nor his effete mannerisms and was discharged for lack of dignity.
  Filmed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s they had a small cast of actors who reprised comedy stereotypes: the fat frumpy matron, the likely lad, the dolly bird, the effete homosexual etc.
  In other words, only an effete man with a distinct lack of self-esteem and character would enter into such an arrangement.
  As far as anyone can tell, his time in Madrid has made him effete and weak.
  Synonyms
  effeminate, unmasculine, unmanly
  womanish, girlish, feminine
  weak, soft, timid, timorous, fearful, cowardly, lily-livered, limp-wristed, spineless, craven, milksoppish, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, weak-kneed
  informal sissy, wimpish, wimpy, pansy-like

Derivatives

effetely

adverb

But such girls smoked effetely, holding the cigarette between thumb and index finger like a European, puffing the smoke out without inhaling it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Cricket in Scotland may be a minority pursuit and there will always be those who see it as effetely English, as you say, and therefore to be resisted.
- We want our kids to be educated but we hate elitists who seem over effetely educated.
- Cullen's creative work is often effetely comfortable and self-consciously vulnerable.
- A later script note describes the guests at Oscar Wilde's residence as ‘laughing effetely and drinking champagne.’

effeteness

nounɪˈfiːtnəsəˈfitnəs

This is attractive music, in which there is not a trace of effeteness.
Example sentencesExamples
- The U.S. premiere revealed a company with an expansive, athletic, yet centered style of movement that eradicates any lingering notion of English effeteness.
- For the last several days, crime has taken on hitherto unheard of proportions - almost daily on radio, TV and in the print media, the public is reminded of the apparent effeteness of the police in the face of mounting crime.
- For all his surface effeteness, he never lacked courageous depths.
- Phillips has cultivated a certain effeteness of prose style.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'no longer fertile'): from Latin effetus 'worn out by bearing young', from ex- 'out' + fetus 'breeding'; related to fetus.

Today effete is usually used of a young man who is affected and rather effeminate, but the word originally referred to animals and meant ‘no longer fertile, too old to bear young’. It comes from Latin effetus, from ex-, meaning ‘out’, and fetus ‘breeding, childbirth, offspring’—the same word as English foetus (Late Middle English) (US fetus). The meaning developed into ‘having exhausted strength or vigour’ and in the late 18th century on to ‘feeble, over-refined’.

Rhymes

accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of effete in US English:

effete

adjectiveəˈfitəˈfēt

1(of a person) affected, overrefined, and ineffectual.
（人）矫揉造作的；无用的
effete trendies from art college
艺术学院的矫揉造作、赶时髦的人。
Example sentencesExamples
- They saw us with our floppy fringes and effete mannerisms and went mental.
- The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable!
- The effete middle class Oxonian dullards despise him as much for being a working class man with big ideas about himself, who insists on speaking in complete sentences and making sense, as for his politics.
- Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are effete liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends.
- I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as effete Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers.
- His successor was hated as an effete playboy.
- When they became more successful, they were worried that the young men would become effete.
- German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view effete and probably Anglophile.
- Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine.
- More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
- A thought: if your opponent has $100 million to portray you as an effete snob, don't go on vacation to a fancy ski resort in Idaho.
- To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
- A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices.
- I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete lefty urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks.
- But if losing the Heineken European Cup annoyed the Catalans, then losing the final of the French championships last June to a bunch of effete Parisians made them really sore.
- Being perceived as an effete art student often made the dressing room a very uncomfortable place for me.
- Being far happier sending back despatches from the trenches of war-torn middle-eastern countries, she is none too impressed at the idea of being forced instead to hob-nob with effete Englishmen.
- In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
Synonyms
affected, over-refined, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious, precious, chichi, flowery, mannered
1. 1.1 No longer capable of effective action.
  衰弱的，无能的
  the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle
  没落贵族的权力开始减弱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You know better than anyone that such obituaries issue from effete societies.
  For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class.
  Europe is weak and effete, a bunch of ingrates who have turned their backs on us after we bailed them out during WWII.
  The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an effete but tenacious aristocracy.
  Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety.
  The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an effete world.
  The aged West has grown rather effete and prefers to avoid ideological confrontation.
  I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world.
  Unfortunately, National Minorities Commission is effete because the persons, who hold positions there, have personal interests above their constitutional obligations.
  The effete aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant.
  Synonyms
  weakened, enfeebled, enervated, worn out, exhausted, finished, burnt out, played out, drained, spent, powerless

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘no longer fertile’): from Latin effetus ‘worn out by bearing young’, from ex- ‘out’ + fetus ‘breeding’; related to fetus.

单词	effete
释义	Definition of effete in English: effete adjective ɪˈfiːtəˈfit 1Affected, over-refined, and ineffectual. （人）矫揉造作的；无用的 effete trendies from art college 艺术学院的矫揉造作、赶时髦的人。 Example sentencesExamples A thought: if your opponent has $100 million to portray you as an effete snob, don't go on vacation to a fancy ski resort in Idaho. The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable! The effete middle class Oxonian dullards despise him as much for being a working class man with big ideas about himself, who insists on speaking in complete sentences and making sense, as for his politics. More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it. Being perceived as an effete art student often made the dressing room a very uncomfortable place for me. But if losing the Heineken European Cup annoyed the Catalans, then losing the final of the French championships last June to a bunch of effete Parisians made them really sore. His successor was hated as an effete playboy. German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view effete and probably Anglophile. A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices. Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine. Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are effete liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends. I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as effete Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers. I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete lefty urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks. In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword. When they became more successful, they were worried that the young men would become effete. Being far happier sending back despatches from the trenches of war-torn middle-eastern countries, she is none too impressed at the idea of being forced instead to hob-nob with effete Englishmen. To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders. They saw us with our floppy fringes and effete mannerisms and went mental. Synonyms affected, over-refined, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious, precious, chichi, flowery, mannered informal twee, la-di-da, pseud British informal poncey, toffee-nosed rare alembicated 1.1 No longer capable of effective action. 衰弱的，无能的 the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle 没落贵族的权力开始减弱。 Example sentencesExamples Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety. Europe is weak and effete, a bunch of ingrates who have turned their backs on us after we bailed them out during WWII. I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world. The effete aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant. The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an effete but tenacious aristocracy. The aged West has grown rather effete and prefers to avoid ideological confrontation. The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an effete world. Unfortunately, National Minorities Commission is effete because the persons, who hold positions there, have personal interests above their constitutional obligations. For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class. You know better than anyone that such obituaries issue from effete societies. Synonyms weakened, enfeebled, enervated, worn out, exhausted, finished, burnt out, played out, drained, spent, powerless 1.2 (of a man) weak or effeminate. he chatted away, exercising his rather effete charm Example sentencesExamples In the long-awaited final episode, the foursome witnesses the mugging and robbery of an effete, obese man. He fluctuates ambiguously between sexual identities: On the one hand, he is hyperbolically heterosexual, with a voracious appetite for women; on the other hand, he is effete and always primped. He is effete, a wimpy and spineless figure. He also had a certain masculine mystique about him, unlike the intellectual, artistic and sometimes effete men who were part of her set. However, in Davenant's masque, the effect is to make men effete, replicating the behaviour of the women they are trying to seduce. Most memorable of the main characters was Mr Humphries, senior sales assistant in the menswear department, a camp and effete man, sharp-tongued and as light as a fairy on his feet. Yet her effete husband paraded his catamites in front of her; Piers Gaveston even flaunted the Queen's wedding jewellery on his person. The public perception of me is that I am camp, effete, effeminate, gay… and I'm not. It's 1981: the world has fallen under the spell of music performed by effete blokes in frilly shirts and trowled-on make-up. His reputation lies in tatters and popular history paints him as an effete Italian weakling but Bonnie Prince Charlie may yet take his proper place in the roll call of Scotland's most macho freedom fighters. While he was large for a boy his age he was unable to mask his feminine voice nor his effete mannerisms and was discharged for lack of dignity. Filmed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s they had a small cast of actors who reprised comedy stereotypes: the fat frumpy matron, the likely lad, the dolly bird, the effete homosexual etc. In other words, only an effete man with a distinct lack of self-esteem and character would enter into such an arrangement. As far as anyone can tell, his time in Madrid has made him effete and weak. Synonyms effeminate, unmasculine, unmanly womanish, girlish, feminine weak, soft, timid, timorous, fearful, cowardly, lily-livered, limp-wristed, spineless, craven, milksoppish, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, weak-kneed informal sissy, wimpish, wimpy, pansy-like Derivatives effetely adverb But such girls smoked effetely, holding the cigarette between thumb and index finger like a European, puffing the smoke out without inhaling it. Example sentencesExamples Cricket in Scotland may be a minority pursuit and there will always be those who see it as effetely English, as you say, and therefore to be resisted. We want our kids to be educated but we hate elitists who seem over effetely educated. Cullen's creative work is often effetely comfortable and self-consciously vulnerable. A later script note describes the guests at Oscar Wilde's residence as ‘laughing effetely and drinking champagne.’ effeteness nounɪˈfiːtnəsəˈfitnəs This is attractive music, in which there is not a trace of effeteness. Example sentencesExamples The U.S. premiere revealed a company with an expansive, athletic, yet centered style of movement that eradicates any lingering notion of English effeteness. For the last several days, crime has taken on hitherto unheard of proportions - almost daily on radio, TV and in the print media, the public is reminded of the apparent effeteness of the police in the face of mounting crime. For all his surface effeteness, he never lacked courageous depths. Phillips has cultivated a certain effeteness of prose style. Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'no longer fertile'): from Latin effetus 'worn out by bearing young', from ex- 'out' + fetus 'breeding'; related to fetus. Today effete is usually used of a young man who is affected and rather effeminate, but the word originally referred to animals and meant ‘no longer fertile, too old to bear young’. It comes from Latin effetus, from ex-, meaning ‘out’, and fetus ‘breeding, childbirth, offspring’—the same word as English foetus (Late Middle English) (US fetus). The meaning developed into ‘having exhausted strength or vigour’ and in the late 18th century on to ‘feeble, over-refined’. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of effete in US English: effete adjectiveəˈfitəˈfēt 1(of a person) affected, overrefined, and ineffectual. （人）矫揉造作的；无用的 effete trendies from art college 艺术学院的矫揉造作、赶时髦的人。 Example sentencesExamples They saw us with our floppy fringes and effete mannerisms and went mental. The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable! The effete middle class Oxonian dullards despise him as much for being a working class man with big ideas about himself, who insists on speaking in complete sentences and making sense, as for his politics. Any good Alabama cop knows that writers are effete liberals who stay up all night doing drugs with their decadent friends. I do not think there has been one French leader who had a good word for the tea drinkers of this world: they are lumped together and seen as effete Englishmen, no doubt to the horror of the Irish; and other heavy tea drinkers. His successor was hated as an effete playboy. When they became more successful, they were worried that the young men would become effete. German fox-hunters tended to be aristocratic, in his view effete and probably Anglophile. Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine. More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it. A thought: if your opponent has $100 million to portray you as an effete snob, don't go on vacation to a fancy ski resort in Idaho. To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders. A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices. I think it's important to read because it makes clear that he's not some effete lefty urbanite like me: he's a sober heartland working-class American who knows whereof he speaks. But if losing the Heineken European Cup annoyed the Catalans, then losing the final of the French championships last June to a bunch of effete Parisians made them really sore. Being perceived as an effete art student often made the dressing room a very uncomfortable place for me. Being far happier sending back despatches from the trenches of war-torn middle-eastern countries, she is none too impressed at the idea of being forced instead to hob-nob with effete Englishmen. In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword. Synonyms affected, over-refined, ineffectual, artificial, studied, pretentious, precious, chichi, flowery, mannered 1.1 No longer capable of effective action. 衰弱的，无能的 the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle 没落贵族的权力开始减弱。 Example sentencesExamples You know better than anyone that such obituaries issue from effete societies. For Trotsky the f-word was a sign of slavery, the sigh of the oppressed, but for Steven Berkoff it is ‘a sign of passion’, a mark of working-class resistance to an effete and effeminate middle class. Europe is weak and effete, a bunch of ingrates who have turned their backs on us after we bailed them out during WWII. The British bourgeoisie is not subaltern to an effete but tenacious aristocracy. Tomes have been written on how, in late 18 th-century France, an effete and ineffectual monarchy was replaced by the tyranny of the sans-culottes and the bloodlust of the Committee for Public Safety. The aristocracy are slightly unreal and living in an effete world. The aged West has grown rather effete and prefers to avoid ideological confrontation. I'm old enough to have signed contracts that date back to the old law that Lessig wants us to return to - an Oz-like paradise when the U.S. went its own manly way in copyright and spurned the effete conventions of the rest of the world. Unfortunately, National Minorities Commission is effete because the persons, who hold positions there, have personal interests above their constitutional obligations. The effete aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant. Synonyms weakened, enfeebled, enervated, worn out, exhausted, finished, burnt out, played out, drained, spent, powerless Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘no longer fertile’): from Latin effetus ‘worn out by bearing young’, from ex- ‘out’ + fetus ‘breeding’; related to fetus.
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