exolete

Meaning

Adjective

  • That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
  • That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
  • Faded.

Origin

  • From the Latin exolētus, the perfect passive participle of exolescō, from ex + olēscō (from oleō + -ēscō).

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