柯林斯詞典effete /??fi?t/ 1. ADJ If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. 軟弱的[正式] ...the charming but effete Russian gentry of the 1840s. ...19世紀40年代迷人但軟弱的俄國貴族。 返回 effete劍橋詞典literary disapproving weak and without much power 弱不禁風的；了無生氣的；軟弱無能的 With nothing to do all day the aristocracy had grown effete and lazy . 貴族們終日無所事事，變得四體不勤，懶散乏力。 disapproving more typical of a woman than of a man 沒有男子漢氣概的；女人氣的 返回 effete