Word of the Day : Effete

ef-fete

adj. :: Worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

"Uncouth, perhaps, and brutal, too, if judged too harshly by the standards of effete twentieth- century civilization, but withal noble, dignified, chivalrous, and loveable." -- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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