Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ɪˈfiːt/
  • US:
ÖversättningUttal
Adjektiv
1.uttjänt
2.förbrukad
3.kraftlös
4.svag
  • Uttal

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. (obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
  2. (now rare) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
  3. Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
  4. effeminate.

Exempel

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore effete
Superlativmost effete

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