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effeteadjective having lost forcefulness, courage, or spiritthe soft, effete society that marked the final years of the Roman empire decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up overrefined, preciousdecaying, declining, dying, failing, waningdebilitated, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, frail, languid, sapped, soft, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpydissolute, immoraldebased, debauched, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute undecadent lacking bodily strengththe outdoor adventure program takes effete youths and turns them into hardy campers asthenic, debilitated, delicate, down-and-out, enervated, enfeebled, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, languid, low, prostrate, prostrated, sapped, slight, soft, softened, tender, unsubstantial, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpish, wimpy challenged, disabled, incapacitated, invalidparalyzedbroken-down, decrepitimpotent, powerlessbreakable, flimsy, fragiledizzy, groggy, rocky, unsteady, woozydrained, exhausted, flagging, tired, weary, worn-outdamaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, lame, unsoundresistless, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yielding mighty, powerful, rugged, stalwart, stout, strong able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, fit, husky, muscular, sinewy, strapping, virilehard, hardy, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sturdy, toughfortified, hardened, inured, strengthened, toughenedenergetic, energized, invigorated, vigorous, vitalizedhale, healthy, soundcapable, competentconvalescing, recovering, recuperating lacking strength of will or characterthe governor is too effete to take on the powerful special interests that really run this state characterless, frail, invertebrate, limp-wristed, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, soft, spineless, weak, weak-kneed, weakened, weakling, wet(British), wimpish, wimpy, wishy-washy flabby, flaccid, forceless, ineffective, ineffectualimpotent, impuissant, powerlessemasculated, unnervedlamblike, meek, pliable, submissivecorrupt, dastardly, unprincipled, unscrupulous, villainouscowardly, craven, fainthearted, lily-livered, nebbishy, poltroon, pusillanimous, sissy, timidinfirm, irresolute, vacillating backboned, firm, hard, strong, tough ethical, good, moral, principled, right, righteous, upright, virtuousdetermined, mettlesome, resolute, unrelentingcourageous, stalwart, stouthearted of or relating to a man who has or displays qualities traditionally considered more suitable for womenwore a slightly more effete style of clothing in those days effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, unmanly, womanish feminine, girlish, girlie(or girly), womanlike, womanlyold-maidish, overnice, prissy, spinsterishdandyish, dudish, foppish, sappycamp, campyantimacho manlike, manly, mannish, masculine, virile in 1660 |