Word Meanings - INEFFECTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient. Pope. The peony root has been much commended, . . . and yet has been by many found ineffectual.

Additional info about word: INEFFECTUAL

Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient. Pope. The peony root has been much commended, . . . and yet has been by many found ineffectual. Boyle. Syn. -- Inefficient; useless; inefficacious; vain; fruitless; unavailing; futile. See Uselesss, Inefficacious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INEFFECTUAL)

• Nugatory
• Trifling
• vain
• inoperative
• ineffectual
• null
• void
• Vain
• Empty
• worthless
• fruitless
• unsatisfying
• unavailing
• idle
• egotistic
• showy
• unreal
• conceited
• arrogant

Related words: (words related to INEFFECTUAL)

• 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.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• EMPTY
  1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• FRUITLESS
  1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless
• 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
• 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.
• UNREALLY
  In an unreal manner; ideally.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• UNREALIZE
  To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.
• UNREAL
  Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• EGOTISTICALLY
  With egotism.
• ARROGANTNESS
  Arrogance.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• OVEREMPTY
  To make too empty; to exhaust. Carew.
• KEMP; KEMPTY
  Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.