English Dictionary

effete

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈfiːt/

形容詞

廃用 人物

(obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out. / Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent. / Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.

日本語の意味

用済みになった、劣化した（物質・量などが使い込まれて尽きた状態） / 気力や活力を失った、弱々しい、無力な状態 / 自己放縦によって衰弱した、堕落した状態

After centuries of overuse, the soil around the old manor had become effete, yielding only sparse crops.

長年の過剰な耕作で、古い館の周りの土はやせ衰え、わずかな作物しか育たなくなった。

意味（1）

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

Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.

意味（2）

Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.

Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.

意味（3）

Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.

In fact, one obvious project of the MLF […] is to counter the idea that lobster is unusually luxe or unhealthy, suitable only for effete palates or the occasional blow-the-diet treat.

意味（4）

(of a person) Affected, overrefined

more effete （ comparative ）

most effete （ superlative ）