Word Meanings - EFFECTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.

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• BOOTLESS
  Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• ADVANTAGEABLE
  Advantageous.
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• EFFECTUOUSLY
  Effectively.
• EFFECTUATION
  Act of effectuating.
• USELESS
  Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless,
• EFFECTIBLE
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.
• EFFECTUAL
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling , a doctrine concerning the work of the
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• 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.
• MUSELESS
  Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• NONEFFECTIVE
  Not fit or available for duty. (more info) 1. Not effective.
• DISADVANTAGE
  1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke.
• SPOUSELESS
  Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.