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Thursday, October 17, 2013
effete
As an adjective, this word can be applied to a person’s character
or a person’s or object’s state of being.
In the context of character, effete means cowardly, weak-willed,
wimpish or ineffectual.
In the context of a state of being, it means
worn-out, spent or wasted. It can also refer to a sterile, barren, unproductive
state.
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