effete

  1. Adjective.  (obsolete) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
  2. Adjective.  (context, now) Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
  3. Adjective.  Decadent, self-indulgent.

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