Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not capable of producing a desired effect or result; ineffective.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; of inadequate force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of having the intended
consequence . - adjective Not
effective .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking the power to produce a desired effect
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Examples
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The sword is the braver way, although all ways are equally inefficacious.
Chapter 18 2010
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And if experience showed the inefficacy of bills of rights, it also showed they were “rarely inefficacious” and better than nothing.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Even an executive customer service rep pledge to resolve the situation was inefficacious.
Bank of America Screws Even Ex-Employees Of 21 Years On Mortgages - The Consumerist 2010
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And if experience showed the inefficacy of bills of rights, it also showed they were “rarely inefficacious” and better than nothing.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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And if experience showed the inefficacy of bills of rights, it also showed they were “rarely inefficacious” and better than nothing.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Going to school can appear to be a waste of time and inefficacious.
Archive 2009-02-01 Paul 2009
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Going to school can appear to be a waste of time and inefficacious.
Young Adult Spotlight: "Truancy Origins" by Isamu Fukui (Tor) Paul 2009
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Whatever one thinks of the death penalty, it appears quite obvious that the decision to seek capital punishment will be a mixture of inefficacious and antagonizing to those Puerto Ricans who believe that they were promised a measure of genuine "sovereignty" in the "compact" the Congress passed in 1950.
Balkinization 2007
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High-flying oratory proved utterly inefficacious in winning any major foreign-policy result he set himself to bring home in triumph.
Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits 2009
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High-flying oratory proved utterly inefficacious in winning any major foreign-policy result he set himself to bring home in triumph.
quotato commented on the word inefficacious
inefficacious on National Public radio today (thursday, 20 September 2007).
September 20, 2007
seanahan commented on the word inefficacious
He also used on the Daily Show last night, I think.
Take efficacy, add some affixes, and bingo, you have a word hardly any can understand.
September 21, 2007