Associations to the word «Effete»
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Wiktionary
EFFETE, adjective. (obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
EFFETE, adjective. (now rare) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
EFFETE, adjective. Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
EFFETE, adjective. Effeminate.
Dictionary definition
EFFETE, adjective. 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".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.