Effete is a disapproving term meaning decadent and self indulgent, even useless. The stereotype of the rugged Westerner is just as false as the one of the effete East Coast liberal.
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.
Adjective S.
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
a.
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
Effete results from virile efforts.
If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones.
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.
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