Synonyms and Antonyms of effete
1
having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit
- the soft, effete society that marked the final years of the Roman empire
overrefined, precious
decaying, declining, dying, failing, waning
debilitated, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, frail, languid, sapped, soft, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpy
dissolute, immoral
debased, debauched, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute
2
lacking bodily strength
- the 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, invalid
paralyzed
broken-down, decrepit
impotent, powerless
breakable, flimsy, fragile
dizzy, groggy, rocky, unsteady, woozy
drained, exhausted, flagging, tired, weary, worn-out
damaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, lame, unsound
resistless, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yielding
able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, fit, husky, muscular, sinewy, strapping, virile
hard, hardy, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sturdy, tough
fortified, hardened, inured, strengthened, toughened
energetic, energized, invigorated, vigorous, vitalized
hale, healthy, sound
capable, competent
convalescing, recovering, recuperating
3
lacking strength of will or character
- the 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, ineffectual
impotent, impuissant, powerless
emasculated, unnerved
lamblike, meek, pliable, submissive
corrupt, dastardly, unprincipled, unscrupulous, villainous
cowardly, craven, fainthearted, lily-livered, nebbishy, poltroon, pusillanimous, sissy, timid
infirm, irresolute, vacillating
ethical, good, moral, principled, right, righteous, upright, virtuous
determined, mettlesome, resolute, unrelenting
courageous, stalwart, stouthearted
4
of or relating to a man who has or displays qualities traditionally considered more suitable for women
- wore a slightly more effete style of clothing in those days
feminine, girlish, girlie (or girly), womanlike, womanly
old-maidish, overnice, prissy, spinsterish
dandyish, dudish, foppish, sappy
camp, campy
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