Effete vs Pretentious - What's the difference?
effete | pretentious |
(label) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
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Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
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Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
Effeminate.
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Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
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As adjectives the difference between effete and pretentious
is that effete is (label) of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out while pretentious is marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.effete
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*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 * effetenesspretentious
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(en adjective)- Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.
- Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.
