Effete vs Dandy - What's the difference?
effete | dandy |
(label) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
*, II.4.1.v:
Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
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Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
Effeminate.
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Like a dandy, foppish.
Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
Almost first rate.
A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
(British, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
A dandy roller.
As adjectives the difference between effete and dandy
is that effete is of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out while dandy is like a dandy, foppish.As a noun dandy is
a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.effete
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Derived terms
* effetely * effetenessdandy
English
Adjective
(er)- That's all fine and dandy , but how much does it cost?
- What a dandy little laptop you have.