effete (adj.)
- ablated
- anemic
- arid
- asthenic
- barren
- blank
- bleary
- bloodless
- bootless
- burned-out
- characterless
- chicken
- cold
- colorless
- consumed
- counterproductive
- cowardly
- cracking
- dead
- debilitated
- decadent
- decayed
- degenerate
- depleted
- disabled
- dismal
- dissipated
- dissolute
- done
- drained
- draining
- dreary
- drooping
- droopy
- dry
- dull
- dusty
- dwindling
- elephantine
- empty
- enervated
- eroded
- etiolated
- exhausted
- fading
- failing
- faint
- falling
- fatigued
- fatuous
- feckless
- feeble
- finished
- flabby
- flaccid
- flagging
- flat
- floppy
- fruitless
- futile
- gone
- gutless
- heavy
- ho-hum
- hollow
- imbecile
- immoral
- impotent
- impoverished
- inadequate
- inane
- incapacitated
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- infertile
- inoperative
- insipid
- invalid
- jaded
- jejune
- languid
- languorous
- leaden
- lifeless
- limber
- limp
- listless
- low-spirited
- nerveless
- nugatory
- out
- overripe
- pale
- pallid
- pedestrian
- plodding
- pointless
- poky
- ponderous
- powerless
- regressive
- retrograde
- retrogressive
- rubbery
- run-down
- sapless
- slack
- sliding
- slipping
- slow
- soft
- solemn
- spent
- spineless
- spiritless
- sterile
- stiff
- stodgy
- stuffy
- superficial
- tasteless
- tedious
- tired
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unhardened
- unnerved
- unstrung
- useless
- vain
- vapid
- waning
- washed-out
- wasted
- weak
- weakened
- weakly
- withering
- wooden
- worn
- worn-out
- worsening