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
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