Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Careless and irresponsible.
- adjective Feeble or ineffective.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spiritless; weak; useless; worthless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot Spiritless; weak; worthless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lacking purpose . - adjective Without
skill ,ineffective ,incompetent . - adjective UK Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
- adjective UK, archaic Lacking vitality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective generally incompetent and ineffectual
- adjective not fit to assume responsibility
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As for when to call it feckless, I don't look past the first box of ammo.
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As for when to call it feckless, I don't look past the first box of ammo.
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He uses the word feckless in the snippet being played!
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Honest Mop’s report crimes but we are hamstrung by the less well intended who make false reports to upgrade their mobile phones, cant sort out their lives/family problems themselves and overindulge in feckless drink and drug binges, seek crime numbers for ’stolen’ DSS payments or ‘criminally damaged’ windows that they broke themsleves.
Police Pay Award (Lose the smiles) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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KELEMEN: What McCain called a feckless agreement, the Turks see as a starting point for a diplomatic way out of the dispute over Iran's suspect nuclear program.
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The youth of all lands are idle and feckless, which is why twelve-of-the-best, administered with a cane, whip or Prozac is a part of all cultures, from eastest-East to westest-West.
Archive 2005-06-01 ps 2005
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AMERICAN POLICY INthe Balkans through the first half of the 1990s can only be described as feckless.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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AMERICAN POLICY INthe Balkans through the first half of the 1990s can only be described as feckless.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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AMERICAN POLICY INthe Balkans through the first half of the 1990s can only be described as feckless.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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The youth of all lands are idle and feckless, which is why twelve-of-the-best, administered with a cane, whip or Prozac is a part of all cultures, from eastest-East to westest-West.
The End of Empire ps 2005
sonofgroucho commented on the word feckless
Does anybody know what a feck is?
January 28, 2007
maesepedro commented on the word feckless
I don't know what feck is, or if it's anything. This is exactly the reason I like feckless.
July 7, 2008
sionnach commented on the word feckless
I think a feck might be related to a gorm.
Feckless is one of the four horses on Cold Comfort Farm. The other three are called Graceless, Aimless and Pointless.
July 7, 2008
darqueau commented on the word feckless
"Sterility. Sterility on all sides. As far as the eye can see the infertile desert lies in the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless waste strown with the bodies of luckless wayfarers."
Ursula K Le Guin -the Dispossessed
July 7, 2008
onomatopoeiaist commented on the word feckless
According to the online dictionary,
Feck: the bulk; the greater part; a quantity
July 10, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word feckless
One of the cows kept at ''Cold Comfort Farm'', the classic satire by Stella Gibbons. Big Business, the bull, services her and her companions Graceless, Aimless, and Pointless.
December 23, 2008
unsightlygimp commented on the word feckless
feck must mean some manner of responsibility? i'm going to list this in my notes as synonymous to fetus-less
April 20, 2009
willie commented on the word feckless
'feck' is the Scottish approximation to the English 'effect,' thus, feckless is without effect.
June 5, 2009
jorge999 commented on the word feckless
I never dreamed I'd be a wreck
who one day wouldn't give a feck,
in my youth I was bold and reckless
now, alas, I'm old and feckless
November 6, 2009
pramishna commented on the word feckless
sounds like freckles.. people who don't work hard to get rid of em.
October 30, 2012
alexz commented on the word feckless
spotted "feckless hooligans!"
September 5, 2015