(of a person 人 with manners and interests that other people consider silly, unimportant and not sincere 效果： 以别人认为愚蠢，不重要和不真诚的态度和兴趣They despised us as effete art students. 他们鄙视我们，认为我们是懦弱的艺术学生。
weak; without the power that it once had 衰弱的；衰败的；丧失权力的 an effete monarchy 衰弱的君主政体
(of a man 男人 without strength; looking or behaving like a woman 软弱的；女人气的
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.