Word Meanings - INEFFICACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means. The seeming inefficacy of censures. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like

Additional info about word: INEFFICACY

Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means. The seeming inefficacy of censures. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many similar medicines. James Gregory.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INEFFICACY)

• Inutility
• Uselessness
• inefficacy
• futility

Related words: (words related to INEFFICACY)

• FUTILITY
  1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. 2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.
• INUTILITY
  Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
• INEFFICACY
  Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means. The seeming inefficacy of censures. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like
• HOUSELESSNESS
  The state of being houseless.
• CAUSELESSNESS
  The state of being causeless.