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  • English Word Effeminate Definition To grow womanish or weak.
  • English Word Effeminated Definition of Effeminate
  • English Word Effeminately Definition In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.
  • English Word Effeminately Definition By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman.
  • English Word Effeminateness Definition The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.
  • English Word Effeminating Definition of Effeminate
  • English Word Effemination Definition Effeminacy; womanishness.
  • English Word Effeminize Definition To make effeminate.
  • English Word Effendi Definition Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.
  • English Word Efferent Definition Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
  • English Word Efferent Definition Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.
  • English Word Efferent Definition An efferent duct or stream.
  • English Word Efferous Definition Like a wild beast; fierce.
  • English Word Effervesce Definition To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.
  • English Word Effervesce Definition To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.
  • English Word Effervesced Definition of Effervesce
  • English Word Effervescence Definition Alt. of Effervescency
  • English Word Effervescency Definition A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
  • English Word Effervescent Definition Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
  • English Word Effervescible Definition Capable of effervescing.
  • English Word Effervescing Definition of Effervesce
  • English Word Effervescive Definition Tending to produce effervescence.
  • English Word Effet Definition The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.
  • English Word Effete Definition No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
  • English Word Efficacious Definition Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.
  • English Word Efficacity Definition Efficacy.
  • English Word Efficacy Definition Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.
  • English Word Efficience Definition Alt. of Efficiency
  • English Word Efficiency Definition The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
  • English Word Efficiency Definition The ratio of useful work to energy expended.