Feckless vs Effete - What's the difference?
feckless | effete |
Lacking purpose.
* 2005 , Canberra Times , September 10
Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
(UK) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
(British, archaic) Lacking vitality.
(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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As adjectives the difference between feckless and effete
is that feckless is lacking purpose while effete is (label) of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.feckless
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman."
Synonyms
* futile, hopeless, ineffective, ineffectual, feeble, meaningless, useless * unpurposed, worthless, aimless, careless, reckless, irresponsibleAntonyms
* effective, efficient, meaningful, useful * purposeful, careful, responsibleExternal links
* *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.
