Word Meanings - EFFETE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If

Additional info about word: EFFETE

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EFFETE)

• Decrepit
• Infirm
• weak
• crippled
• superannuated
• effete
• broken-down
• enfeebled
• tottering
• aged
• Obsolete
• Antiquated
• past
• disused
• archaic
• old-fashioned
• Superannuated
• Effete
• timeworn
• decrepit
• passe'

Related words: (words related to EFFETE)

• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• CRIPPLY
  Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• SUPERANNUATION
  The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• OBSOLETE
  Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
• ARCHAICAL
  Archaic. -- Ar*cha"ic*al*ly, adv.
• SUPERANNUATE
  1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne. 2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
• DECREPITNESS
  Decrepitude. Barrow.
• INFIRMNESS
  Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
• TOTTERY
  Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
• DISUSE
  1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of. 2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.
• TOTTERINGLY
  In a tottering manner.
• INFIRMARIAN
  A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
• CRIPPLER
  A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER