effete
英 [ɪˈfi:t] 美 [ɪˈfit]

adj.

虚弱无力的；衰落的；柔弱的；女人气的

英英释义

effete[ i'fi:t ]

• adj.marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay

  "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

  同义词：decadent

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. People said the aristocracy was effete.
   人们说贵族阶级已是日薄西山了。
2. During the middle ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.
   在中世纪期间，希腊文明开始衰落直至衰败。

权威例句

A case of halo nevus with effete melanocytes.
Induction of macrophage growth by effete cells
The effete in the heat: heat-related hospital presentations during a ten day heat wave.
The fate of effete epithelial cells at the villus tips of the human small intestine.
Effete-mediated degradation of Cyclin A is essential for the maintenance of germline stem cells in Drosophila.
The Ophthalmic Clinicopathologic Report: An Effete Scientific Genre?
Neutrophils: dead or effete? Cell surface phenotype and implications for phagocytic clearance
A novel mechanism for disposing of effete epithelial cells in the small intestine of guinea pigs
Possible clearance of effete polymorphonuclear leucocytes from synovial fluid by cytophagocytic mononuclear cells: implications for ...
Aggregation of macrophages in the tips of intestinal villi in guinea pigs: their possible role in the phagocytosis of effete epithel...