Effete vs Bootless - What's the difference?
effete | bootless |
(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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without boots
profitless; pointless; unavailing
* 1592–1609 , , Sonnet XXIX
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
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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 * effetenessbootless
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Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries