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.