Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without effect or result; useless; vain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
effect oradvantage .
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Examples
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However, the Danish association of doctors and the Danish association of medicinal/pharmaceudical producers have just made an agreement in which the companies have to publish all research results, even when they prove that the companies 'products are effectless (harmful effects have always been required made public, for obviously reasons).
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But shadows don't sleep, they only hide, and this Shadow laughed as the magic ran through it, effectless.
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He conducts effectless a photo-op foreign policy for which we have already paid a price but we may in the future pay a very, very heavy price in American blood and treasurer.
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Emptiness drained the life out of this effectless soul as it drained out the life of the world.
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We have seen that it was not effectless; and, what glimmer of it came down, through Plato, into the Middle Ages.
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She stamped her foot for a final emphasis, but she was aware of her words all having fallen effectless, like blows dealt some detestable thing in a dream.
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In thought he was always doing it, and there were times when he almost did it in reality, but he let these times pass effectless, hoping for some better time when the thing would do itself, waiting for the miracle which love expects, when it is itself the miracle that brings all its desires to fulfilment.
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But, thinking of certain Englishmen I have known, I should be ashamed to join in the cry of those story - telling Americans whose jokes have sometimes fallen effectless.
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It could be said, of course, that the time apparently wasted in these effectless studies could have been well spent in deepening and widening a knowledge of English literature never yet too great, and I have often said this myself; but then, again, I am not sure that the studies were altogether effectless.
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It could be said, of course, that the time apparently wasted in these effectless studies could have been well spent in deepening and widening a knowledge of English literature never yet too great, and I have often said this myself; but then, again, I am not sure that the studies were altogether effectless.
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