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Effete vs Bootless - What's the difference?

effete | bootless |

As adjectives the difference between effete and bootless

is that effete is of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out while bootless is without boots.

effete

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
  • *, II.4.1.v:
  • 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.
  • Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
  • *
  • 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.
  • Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
  • Effeminate.
  • *
  • a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.

    Derived terms

    * effetely * effeteness

    bootless

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (-)
  • without boots
  • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • profitless; pointless; unavailing
  • * 1592–1609 , , Sonnet XXIX
  • When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
    Synonyms
    * fruitless
    Derived terms
    * bootlessly * bootlessness