Adjective: effete i'feet or e'feet
- Affected, overrefined, and effeminate
"the young man spoke in effete, accented English"
- Deprived of vigour and the ability to be effective
"fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete, ineffectual and impoverished"
- Lacking in power or forcefulness
"The effete government failed to implement any real changes";
- ineffective, ineffectual, unable, pathetic, useless [informal], wet [Brit, informal]