1. Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
   "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
   - decadent 
2. Lacking in power or forcefulness
   - ineffective, ineffectual, unable

See also: impotent, indulgent

• grade-appropriate
• grade-constructed
• graded
• grader
• gradient
• grading
• gradual
• gradualism
• graduality
• gradually
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• graduated cylinder
• graduated table
• graduated tax
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• Graecise
• Graecize