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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoiled, exhausted |
| Synonyms: | burnt out, corrupt, debased, decadent, decayed, declining, decrepit, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, drained, enervated, enfeebled, far-gone, feeble, immoral, obsolete, overrefined, overripe, played out, soft, spent, vitiated, washed-out, wasted, weak, worn out |
| Antonyms: | capable, tireless |
| Main Entry: | barren |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to support growth |
| Synonyms: | arid, depleted, desert, desolate, dry, effete, empty, fallow, fruitless, impotent, impoverished, infecund, infertile, parched, sterile, unbearing, uncultivable, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive, waste |
| Antonyms: | developing, fecund, fertile, filled, full, growing, productive, useful |
| Main Entry: | decadent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, self-indulgent |
| Synonyms: | debased, debauched, decaying, declining, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, evil, gone bad, gone to the dogs, immoral, lost, moribund, overripe, perverted, wanton, wicked |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, good, humble, kind, moral |
Example Sentences
- Christie does not come across as either an effete intellectual or an overbred aristocrat.
- How hopelessly effete and elitist an intellectual approach becomes in such a setting.
- But then they have proved in recent times to be totally effete and incompetent.
| Main Entry: | decayed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, falling apart |
| Synonyms: | addled, bad, carious, carrion, corroded, decomposed, effete, gangrenous, moldered, overripe, perished, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rank, riddled, rotted, ruined, spoiled, wasted, withered |
| Antonyms: | developing, flourishing, germinating, growing, improving, ripening |
| Main Entry: | decrepit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age |
| Synonyms: | aged, anile, antiquated, battered, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, crippled, dilapidated, doddering, effete, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, haggard, incapacitated, infirm, insubstantial, old, quavering, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, senile, shabby, shaking, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, tired, tottering, tumble-down, unsound, used, wasted, weak, weakly, weather-beaten, worn, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fit, healthy, young |
| Main Entry: | degenerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, deteriorated |
| Synonyms: | base, debased, debauched, decadent, decayed, degenerated, degraded, demeaned, depraved, dissolute, effete, failing, fallen, flatitious, immoral, infamous, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, overripe, perverted, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten, sinking, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, vitiated, wicked, worsen |
| Notes: | to degenerate means 'to decline in value, move lower on a scale' but to deteriorate means 'to worsen, to become lowered, or be reduced in value'; degenerate pertains more to character and virtue while deteriorate is more about loss of strength or vitality |
| Antonyms: | moral, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | depleted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, exhausted |
| Synonyms: | all in, bare, bleary, collapsed, decreased, depreciated, destitute, devoid of, drained, effete, emptied, far-gone, in want, kaput, lessened, out of, pooped out, reduced, sapped, short of, sold, sold out, spent, sucked out, used, used up, vacant, washed out, wasted, weakened, without resources, worn, worn out |
| Antonyms: | augmented, enlarged, increased, unconsumed, unused |
| Main Entry: | done |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accomplished, finished |
| Synonyms: | a wrap, all in, all over, brought about, brought to pass, buttoned up, compassed, complete, completed, concluded, consummated, depleted, down, drained, effected, effete, ended, executed, exhausted, fixed, fulfilled, over, perfected, performed, realized, rendered, set, spent, succeeded, terminated, through, used up, wired, wrought |
| Antonyms: | incomplete, undone, unfinished, unperfected |
| Main Entry: | done in |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted |
| Synonyms: | all in, bushed, dead, depleted, done, effete, fagged, far-gone, on last leg, ready to drop, spent, tired, used up, washed-out, weary, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | rested |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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