Word Meanings - INEFFECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INEFFECTIVE)
- Futile
- Weak
- ineffective
- useless
- nugatory
- unavailing
- vain
- trifling
- Lame
- faltering
- hobbling
- hesitating
- impotent
- crippled
- halt
- defective
- imperfect
Related words: (words related to INEFFECTIVE)
- FALTER
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell. - FUTILELY
In a futile manner. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - HESITATION
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift. - CRIPPLY
Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope. - NUGATORY
1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor. - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - CRIPPLENESS
Lameness. Johnson. - DEFECTIVE
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied - HESITATINGLY
With hesitation or doubt. - IMPERFECT
1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential - HOBBLEBUSH
A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. - TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. - TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n. - INEFFECTIVE
Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor. - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland. - IMPOTENT
Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. (more info) 1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; - TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne. - FUTILE
loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. Talkers and futile persons. Bacon. 2. Of no importance; answering no useful end; useless; vain; worthless. "Futile theories." I. Taylor. His - IMPERFECTIBLE
Incapable of being mad perfect. - MUSELESS
Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.