enervatedadj.
/ˈɛnəveɪtɪd/ That is deprived of nerve and strength, literal and figurative; effeminate, weakly.
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the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective]
womanly?c1225
ferbleta1300
effeminatea1393
nicea1393
softc1450
manlessa1529
unmanly1534
cockney1573
effeminated1580
unmanlikea1586
milky1602
enervate1603
womanizing1615
emasculate1622
womanized1624
softly1643
womanlish1647
unmasculine1649
emollid1656
ladylike1656
enervated1660
emasculated1701
petticoated1708
tea-faced1728
effeminized1789
invirile1870
epicene1881
sissyish1889
sissified1898
devirilized1901
cockless1902
camp1909
pansy1929
campy1932
queenly1933
poncy1937
pansyish1941
swishy1941
moffie1954
poofy1956
femme1963
poofed-up1964
minty1965
ponced-up1970
lavender1979
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium i. iv, in Wks. (1855) IX. 162 The gods which they worshipped, those poor enervated demons.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 23 in A. Pope Wks. II Whilst their enervated Lords are lolling in their chariots (a species of Vectitation seldom us'd amongst the Ancients, except by old men).
1841 R. W. Emerson Man the Reformer in Dial Apr. 531 The enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
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