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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.

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  • 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.

 

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