(of a person 人 with manners and interests that other people consider silly, unimportant and not sincere 效果： 以别人認爲愚蠢，不重要和不真誠的態度和興趣They despised us as effete art students. 他們鄙視我們，認爲我們是懦弱的藝術學生。
weak; without the power that it once had 衰弱的；衰敗的；喪失權力的 an effete monarchy 衰弱的君主政體
(of a man 男人 without strength; looking or behaving like a woman 軟弱的；女人氣的
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘no longer fertile’): from Latin effetus ‘worn out by bearing young’, from ex- ‘out’ + fetus ‘breeding’; related to fetus.