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adj
exhausted, spent, worn-out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: quantities etc
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: low, used up, consumed, depleted, done up, effete, exhausted, expended, gone, finished, forworn, spent
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: low, puny, anemic, breakable, broken-down, damaged, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, dickless, effete, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, faint, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, harmed, hurt, impaired, impotent, infirm, injured, languid, powerless, prostrated, prostrate, raddled, resistless, sapped, slightsoft, softened, susceptible, tender, tired, torpid, unresistant, vincible, vulnerable, wasted, weak, weakened, weary, weedy, wimpy, worn out, yielding
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dissipated, incontinent
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Affected, overrefined.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fey, pretentious, stilted, affected, effete, recherché, hoity-toity, overrefined, pansified, precious, smug, stagy, theatrical, Woosterian
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: decadent
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin effētus (“exhausted”, literally “that has given birth”), 1620s.
Across languages
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
