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Effete vs Exhasted - What's the difference?

effete | exhasted |

Exhasted is likely misspelled.


Exhasted has no English definition.

As an adjective effete

is of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.

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 effÅ“te , 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

    exhasted

    Not English

    Exhasted has no English definition. It may be misspelled.