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Effete Moderate

Effete has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

affected, overrefined, and effeminate

"the young man spoke in effete, accented English"

2

deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective

"fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished"

3

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

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