effete /i- or e-fētˈ/

1. Exhausted
2. Degenerate, decadent
3. No longer capable of effective action
4. No longer able to reproduce

effeteˈly adverb

effeteˈness noun

• metalepses
• metalepsis
• metaleptic
• metaleptical
• metal fatigue
• metal fatigues
• metaling
• metalinguistic
• metalinguistically
• metalinguistics
• metalist
• metalists
• metalize
• metalized
• metalizes
• metalizing
• metall.
• metalled
• metallic
• metallically
• metalliding
• metallidings
• metalliferous
• metalline
• metalling