词汇释义
effete TEM8 GRE
UK /ɪˈfiːt/ US /ɪˈfiːt/
adj, If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. 软弱的，无权力的，怯懦的
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外刊例句
1. Former president Donald Trump made a point of elevating his own unhealthy eating habits to be the stuff of real Americans, while consigning healthy eating to being a preoccupation of effete elites.(Washington Post)
2. And I was just a very intellectual, effete kid — I was probably reading Proust at that point in my life — and that experience made me a lot grittier and tougher.(New York Times)
3. One staffer given his marching orders is a senior trader played by Stanley Tucci, an actor with a facility for toggling from effete to macho who displays a dash of both here.(The GuardianJ)
4. An Arsenal defeat is often met with accusations of an effete approach while victories usually spark epithets of eminence.(The Guardian)
5. And Germany, the favourites, are playing with Gomez, a striker who embodies both the poacher and the – occasionally effete – big man, both presumed on the ailing list.(The Guardian)
6.It is that feeling of being lulled to sleep by gruff amiable Australian men abrasively joshing some flustered and suddenly effete domestic radio export.(The Guardian)
7. The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.(Washington Post)
8. And it improvises on decades of work on the right to stitch the words “effete” and “liberal” together, painting a whole swath of the political spectrum as a feminine affectation.(New York Times)
9. Despite his abundance of lyrical talent, we’ll be sure not to mistake him for some effete literary type.(New York Times)
10. If much British fiction is effete and American fiction overcommercialized, Indian fiction, on the showing of Mr. Rushdie and now Mr. Ghosh, is alive.(New York Times)
11. Not a passing shower or a tropical gullywasher, not some effete drizzle but constant, temperate rainfall lasting for several hours.(Washington Post)
12. The low-budget action movies that the iconoclastic critic Manny Farber called “underground films” in an essay defiantly subtitled “a bit of male truth”— nothing effete about these flicks — were Hollywood mainstays through the 1950s.(New York Times)
词汇搭配
effete people
词汇家族
effetely, effeteness
词汇来源
1620s, "functionless as a result of age or exhaustion," from Latin effetus (usually in fem. effeta) "exhausted, unproductive, worn out (with bearing offspring), past bearing," literally "that has given birth," from a lost verb, *efferi, from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + fetus "childbearing, offspring" (see fetus). Figurative use is earliest in English; literal use is rare. Sense of "intellectually or morally exhausted" (1790) led to that of "decadent, effeminate" (by 1850s).
近义词
weak, spineless, soft, wimpish, wimpy, frail, nerveless, weakened, cowardly, timid, timorous, pusillanimous, fearful, feeble
反义词
firm, hard, strong, tough, stout, powerful, mighty, courageous, brave, energetic, vigorous, valiant, strong-willed, resolute, resilient, hardy, determined, unwavering, tenacious, steadfast, dedicated stouthearted
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