Usually means: Lacking energy, vitality, or strength.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. effete: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. effete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effete: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effete: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effete: Vocabulary.com
  6. Effete, effete: Wordnik
  7. effete: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effete: Wiktionary
  9. effete: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. effete: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. effete: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Effete, effete: Dictionary.com
  13. effete: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Effete: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. effete: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. effete: Rhymezone
  17. Effete: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. effete: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. effete: Free Dictionary
  20. effete: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. effete: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. effete: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. effete: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. effete: Legal dictionary

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  1. effete: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See effetely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
adjective:  Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
adjective:  Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
adjective:  (of a person) Affected, overrefined.

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