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{"id": "effete", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "effete", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "effetely", "text": "effetely"}, {"id": "effeteness", "text": "effeteness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["early 17th century (in the sense \u2018no longer fertile\u2019): from Latin effetus \u2018worn out by bearing young\u2019, from ex- \u2018out\u2019 + fetus \u2018breeding\u2019; related to fetus"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/effete_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u026a\u02c8fi\u02d0t"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["affected, over-refined, and ineffectual"], "examples": [{"text": "effete trendies from art college"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0313230.005", "shortDefinitions": ["affected, over-refined, and ineffectual"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["no longer capable of effective action"], "examples": [{"text": "the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0313230.007", "shortDefinitions": ["no longer capable of effective action"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "weakened"}, {"language": "en", "text": "enfeebled"}, {"language": "en", "text": "enervated"}, {"language": "en", "text": "worn out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "exhausted"}, {"language": "en", "text": "finished"}, {"language": "en", "text": "burnt out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "played out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "drained"}, {"language": "en", "text": "spent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "powerless"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "effete", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0004646.003"}]}, {"definitions": ["weak or effeminate (typically used of a man)"], "examples": [{"text": "he chatted away, exercising his rather effete charm"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0313230.008", "shortDefinitions": ["weak or effeminate"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "effeminate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unmasculine"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unmanly"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "effete", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0004646.002"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "affected"}, {"language": "en", "text": "over-refined"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ineffectual"}, {"language": "en", "text": "artificial"}, {"language": "en", "text": "studied"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pretentious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "precious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "chi-chi"}, {"language": "en", "text": "flowery"}, {"language": "en", "text": "mannered"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "effete", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0004646.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "effete"}], "type": "headword", "word": "effete"}], "word": "effete"}
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