Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not producing an intended effect; ineffectual.
- adjective Inadequate; incompetent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not effective; not producing any effect, or the effect desired; wanting effective energy or operation; inefficient; impotent: as, ineffective efforts; an ineffective blow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not effective; not having the desired effect; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not having the desired
effect ;ineffectual - adjective lacking in
ability ;incompetent orinadequate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not producing an intended effect
- adjective lacking in power or forcefulness
- adjective lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
Etymologies
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Examples
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And because those weapons are so ineffective, we’ll use your neighbourhood as a testing ground…..ineffective as they are, you’ll probably survive…….
Think Progress » Friedman Blasts Liberals, Claims They Believe Arabs Are ‘Incapable Of Democracy’ 2007
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In 2008, Navarro joined with other former FBI and CIA interrogators to denounce the use of waterboarding and other so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which they called ineffective, counterproductive and unethical.
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But what we get from our government sometimes is what I call ineffective authoritarianism.
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The First Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe, in its latest quarterly guide to the economy, cited the high domestic and foreign debt and what it called the ineffective use of the borrowed money and the haemorrhage of funds needed to service the debt as a particularly critical area of concern.
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It said a clearer approach among Primary Care Trusts PCTs to what it called "ineffective or inefficient treatments" would ensure more consistency across the country.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich is aiming at what he calls ineffective job-creation efforts by proposing a private agency to take over for the Ohio Department of
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich is aiming at what he calls ineffective job-creation efforts by proposing a private agency to take over for the Ohio Department of
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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Even before the recent dip in bilateral ties, China was reluctant to endorse sanctions which it described as ineffective and damaging to its extensive economic ties to Iran.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich is aiming at what he calls ineffective job-creation efforts by proposing a private agency to take over for the Ohio Department of
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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Even before the recent dip in bilateral ties, China was reluctant to endorse sanctions which it described as ineffective and damaging to its extensive economic ties to Iran.
The Guardian World News Julian Borger 2010
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