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Exact Match:
- inefficacious
- lacking the power to produce a desired effect; "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime"
Synonyms:
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- manque
collapse - unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition related words >
- forceless
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- lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument" related words >
- unsuccessful
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- not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome related words >
- failed
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- unable to meet financial obligations; "a failing business venture" related words >
- abortive,
- bankrupt,
- bootless,
- broke,
- broken,
- busted,
- destitute,
- failing,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- in receivership,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- insolvent,
- lame,
- manque,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- of no effect,
- on the rocks,
- ruined,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- unfortunate,
- unsuccessful,
- useless
- abortive,
- aimless,
- barren,
- bootless,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- meaningless,
- no go,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- of no use,
- pointless,
- purposeless,
- sterile,
- superfluous,
- unavailable,
- unproductive,
- useless,
- vain
- abortive,
- bootless,
- crumbling,
- decrepit,
- disintegrating,
- failed,
- failing,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- infirm,
- lame,
- manque,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- of no effect,
- poor,
- poorish,
- rotten,
- rotten at,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- unfirm,
- unfortunate,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsubstantial,
- unsuccessful,
- useless
- abortive
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- failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President" related words >
- barren,
- bootless,
- failed,
- failing,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- immature,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- lame,
- manque,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- nonremunerative,
- of no effect,
- otiose,
- profitless,
- rewardless,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unformed,
- unfortunate,
- unmatured,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unripe,
- unsuccessful,
- useless,
- vain
- NG,
- cheap,
- featherweight,
- forceless,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- impotent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- junk,
- junky,
- lightweight,
- no-good,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no account,
- powerless,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- trashy,
- trivial,
- unauthoritative,
- valueless,
- weak,
- without any weight,
- worthless
- inefficient
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- not producing desired results; wasteful; "an inefficient campaign against drugs"; "outdated and inefficient design and methods" related words >
- artless,
- careless,
- half-assed,
- inadept,
- inapt,
- inattentive,
- incapable,
- incapable of,
- incompetent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- inexpert,
- inferior,
- mediocre,
- pedestrian,
- poor,
- skill-less,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- thoughtless,
- unable,
- unable to,
- unapt,
- undeft,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- unendowed,
- unfacile,
- unfit,
- unfitted,
- ungifted,
- unintelligent,
- unprepared,
- unproficient,
- unqualified,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- untalented,
- untrained,
- unworkmanlike
- bootless
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- unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" related words >
- abortive,
- barren,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- frustrating,
- futile,
- gainless,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- lame,
- manque,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pointless,
- profitless,
- purposeless,
- rewardless,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unfortunate,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsuccessful,
- useless,
- vain,
- wasteful,
- worthless
- inoperative
collapse
- not operating; "an inoperative law" related words >
- barren,
- bootless,
- broken,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- functionless,
- futile,
- haywire,
- in disrepair,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- inapplicable,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperable,
- invalid,
- nonfunctional,
- nonutilitarian,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- on the blink,
- on the fritz,
- otiose,
- out of commission,
- out of condition,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of repair,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- sterile,
- unavailing,
- unconducive,
- unemployable,
- unfit,
- unhelpful,
- unsuitable,
- unusable,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- vain
- null
collapse
- lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" related words >
- aimless,
- bad,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- characterless,
- clear,
- designless,
- devoid,
- empty,
- existless,
- featureless,
- garbled,
- hollow,
- importless,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- lacking,
- meaningless,
- minus,
- missing,
- negative,
- nonconnotative,
- nondenotative,
- nonexistent,
- null and void,
- phatic,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- scrambled,
- senseless,
- unexisting,
- unmeaning,
- unrelieved,
- unsignificant,
- useless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- void,
- white,
- with nothing inside,
- without being,
- without content,
- worthless
- feckless
collapse
- generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
- not fit to assume responsibility related words >
- aimless,
- barren,
- bootless,
- carefree,
- careless,
- counterproductive,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- fruitless,
- fustian,
- futile,
- good-for-nothing,
- grasshopper,
- happy-go-lucky,
- heedless,
- impotent,
- improvident,
- inadequate,
- inadvertent,
- inane,
- incautious,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- irresponsible,
- lackadaisical,
- meaningless,
- negligent,
- no go,
- nonchalant,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- of no use,
- pointless,
- purposeless,
- reckless,
- remiss,
- shiftless,
- sterile,
- superfluous,
- thoughtless,
- thriftless,
- unavailing,
- uncaring,
- undependable,
- uneconomical,
- unheeding,
- unproviding,
- unpurposed,
- unreflective,
- unreliable,
- unthinking,
- unthrifty,
- untrustworthy,
- useless,
- vain,
- wild,
- worthless,
- wrecking
- nugatory
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- of no real value; "a nugatory law" related words >
- NG,
- airy,
- asinine,
- barren,
- bootless,
- catchpenny,
- cheap,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hollow,
- idle,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- junk,
- junky,
- light,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- shoddy,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- sterile,
- superficial,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailing,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- windy,
- worthless
- powerless
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- lacking power related words >
- anemic,
- asthenic,
- bloodless,
- chicken,
- cowardly,
- crippled,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- disabled,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dull,
- effete,
- etiolated,
- faint,
- faintish,
- featherweight,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- forceless,
- gone,
- gutless,
- helpless,
- imbecile,
- impotent,
- inactive,
- incapable,
- incapacitated,
- incompetent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inert,
- infirm,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lightweight,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- nerveless,
- no-account,
- of no account,
- passive,
- pithless,
- pooped,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- soft,
- spineless,
- strengthless,
- supine,
- unable,
- unauthoritative,
- unfit,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- weak,
- weakly,
- without any weight
- useless
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- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency" related words >
- abortive,
- aimless,
- barren,
- bootless,
- counterproductive,
- deleterious,
- detrimental,
- disadvantageous,
- disserviceable,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- fustian,
- futile,
- good-for-nothing,
- harmful,
- hopeless,
- idle,
- impotent,
- impracticable,
- impractical,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incompetent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- injurious,
- inoperative,
- inutile,
- invalid,
- lame,
- manque,
- meaningless,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- no go,
- nonfunctional,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- of no use,
- pointless,
- prejudicial,
- purposeless,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- superfluous,
- unadvantageous,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unpractical,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unpurposed,
- unrewarding,
- unserviceable,
- unsuccessful,
- unusable,
- unworkable,
- vain,
- worthless
- featherweight
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- a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds
- weighs 126-139 pounds
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds related words >
- Chinese boxer,
- bantam,
- bantamweight,
- banty,
- black belt,
- boxer,
- brown belt,
- bruiser,
- button,
- catchweight,
- chit,
- cluck,
- diminutive,
- dimwit,
- dumb,
- fighter,
- fingerling,
- fisticuffer,
- flyweight,
- forceless,
- heavyweight,
- imponderous,
- impotent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- karate expert,
- light heavyweight,
- lightweight,
- middleweight,
- mini,
- minikin,
- minnow,
- minny,
- mouse,
- no-account,
- nubbin,
- of no account,
- palooka,
- peewee,
- pony,
- powerless,
- prizefighter,
- pug,
- pugilist,
- runt,
- savate expert,
- shrimp,
- slip,
- small fry,
- snip,
- snippet,
- sparrer,
- tit,
- unauthoritative,
- underweight,
- unheavy,
- wart,
- weak,
- weightless,
- welterweight,
- wisp,
- without any weight
- Albigensian,
- Arian,
- Catharist,
- Donatist,
- Ebionitist,
- Erastian,
- Gnostic,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- Lollard,
- Manichaean,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- Pelagian,
- Sabellian,
- Waldensian,
- Wyclifite,
- antinomian,
- apocryphal,
- emanationist,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- featherweight,
- forceless,
- garbled,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- impotent,
- inauthentic,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- lightweight,
- miscited,
- misquoted,
- misreported,
- misstated,
- no-account,
- nonofficial,
- nonorthodox,
- of no account,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- powerless,
- spurious,
- unaccepted,
- unapproved,
- unattested,
- unauthentic,
- unauthenticated,
- uncanonical,
- uncertified,
- unchecked,
- unconfirmed,
- uncorroborated,
- undemonstrated,
- unfounded,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreliable,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- unvalidated,
- unverified,
- unwarranted,
- weak,
- without any weight
- counterproductive
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- tending to hinder the achievement of a goal related words >
- baleful,
- baneful,
- barren,
- bootless,
- choking,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- crosswise,
- damaging,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- detrimental,
- disadvantageous,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- harmful,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- hurtful,
- in the way,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- injurious,
- inoperative,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- invalid,
- lethal,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mischievous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- obstructing,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- of no force,
- ominous,
- pernicious,
- poisonous,
- prejudicial,
- repressive,
- restrictive,
- scatheful,
- sterile,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- suppressive,
- toxic,
- troublesome,
- unavailing,
- useless,
- vain,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent
- ineffective
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- lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers"
- not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation"
- lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes" related words >
- abortive,
- aimless,
- barren,
- bootless,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherweight,
- feckless,
- forceless,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- ill-qualified,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incapable,
- incapable of,
- incompetent,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inferior,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- lame,
- lightweight,
- maladjusted,
- manque,
- meaningless,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- no go,
- no-account,
- not equal to,
- not up to,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no account,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- of no use,
- pointless,
- powerless,
- purposeless,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- superfluous,
- unable,
- unable to,
- unadapted,
- unadjusted,
- unauthoritative,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unendowed,
- unequipped,
- unfit,
- unfitted,
- unfortunate,
- ungifted,
- unproductive,
- unqualified,
- unsuccessful,
- untalented,
- useless,
- vain,
- weak,
- without any weight,
- worthless
- stillborn
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- (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby" related words >
- abortive,
- asleep,
- asleep in Jesus,
- at rest,
- bearing,
- bereft of life,
- bootless,
- born,
- breathless,
- called home,
- calved,
- carrion,
- cast,
- croaked,
- dead,
- dead and gone,
- death-struck,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- demised,
- departed,
- departed this life,
- destitute of life,
- done for,
- dropped,
- exanimate,
- failed,
- failing,
- fallen,
- finished,
- foaled,
- food for worms,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- given birth,
- giving birth,
- gone,
- gone to glory,
- gone west,
- hatched,
- inanimate,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- lame,
- late,
- late lamented,
- launched into eternity,
- lifeless,
- manque,
- martyred,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- nee,
- newborn,
- no more,
- of no effect,
- passed on,
- pushing up daisies,
- released,
- reposing,
- resting easy,
- sainted,
- sleeping,
- smitten with death,
- stickit,
- still,
- successless,
- taken away,
- taken off,
- unfortunate,
- unsuccessful,
- useless,
- whelped,
- with the Lord,
- with the saints,
- without life,
- without vital functions
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- arid,
- barren,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- childless,
- counterproductive,
- desert,
- desolate,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- failed,
- failing,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- foiled,
- frustrated,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- idle,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- lame,
- leached,
- manque,
- menopausal,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pointless,
- profitless,
- rewardless,
- sine prole,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- sucked dry,
- teemless,
- thwarted,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfortunate,
- unfruitful,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsown,
- unsuccessful,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue,
- worthless
- lame
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- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal; "she wore a gold lame dress" related words >
- abortive,
- awkward,
- bad,
- bootless,
- bugger,
- burden,
- castrate,
- castrated,
- clumsy,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- crippled,
- cumber,
- de-energize,
- debilitate,
- disable,
- disabled,
- disenable,
- drain,
- emasculate,
- emasculated,
- embarrass,
- encumber,
- enfeeble,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- failed,
- failing,
- feeble,
- fetter,
- flimsy,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- game,
- half-baked,
- halt,
- halting,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- hamstrung,
- handicap,
- handicapped,
- hobble,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hors de combat,
- impaired,
- impede,
- inactivate,
- incapacitate,
- incapacitated,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- involve,
- kibosh,
- lime,
- limping,
- lumber,
- maim,
- maimed,
- manque,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- net,
- of no effect,
- poor,
- press down,
- put,
- queer,
- queer the works,
- sabotage,
- saddle with,
- shackle,
- snarl,
- spavined,
- spike,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- tangle,
- thin,
- toil,
- trammel,
- unconvincing,
- unfit,
- unfortunate,
- unsuccessful,
- useless,
- weak,
- weaken,
- weigh down,
- wing,
- wreck
- meaningless
collapse
- having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation" related words >
- absurd,
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- asinine,
- blank,
- bootless,
- capricious,
- casual,
- designless,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disinclined to communicate,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- empty,
- erratic,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fitful,
- foolish,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- fustian,
- garbled,
- good-for-nothing,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- hollow,
- immethodical,
- importless,
- impotent,
- inane,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsequential,
- indiscriminate,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- insignificant,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irrelevant,
- misshapen,
- no go,
- nonconnotative,
- nondenotative,
- nonsensical,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- nugatory,
- null,
- of no use,
- orderless,
- paltry,
- phatic,
- planless,
- pointless,
- preposterous,
- promiscuous,
- puny,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- random,
- ridiculous,
- scrambled,
- secretive,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- silly,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- superfluous,
- systemless,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unarranged,
- unavailing,
- unclassified,
- uncommunicative,
- unconversable,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unimportant,
- unjoined,
- unmeaning,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unpurposed,
- unsignificant,
- unsociable,
- unsorted,
- unsubstantial,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- useless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- valueless,
- wandering,
- worthless
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- aimless,
- arid,
- barren,
- bootless,
- borne,
- celibate,
- childless,
- counterproductive,
- desert,
- desolate,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- failed,
- failing,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherweight,
- feckless,
- forceless,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- ill-qualified,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- ineffective,
- inefficacious,
- inefficient,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- lame,
- leached,
- lightweight,
- limited,
- maladjusted,
- manque,
- mean,
- meaningless,
- menopausal,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- narrow,
- no go,
- no-account,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- not equal to,
- not up to,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no account,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- of no use,
- paltry,
- pointless,
- powerless,
- purposeless,
- set,
- sine prole,
- small,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- sucked dry,
- superfluous,
- teemless,
- unable,
- unadapted,
- unadjusted,
- unauthoritative,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- uncultivated,
- unequipped,
- unfertile,
- unfit,
- unfitted,
- unfortunate,
- unfruitful,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unqualified,
- unsown,
- unsuccessful,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- weak,
- without any weight,
- without issue
- absurd,
- air-built,
- airy,
- apish,
- asinine,
- barren,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- blank,
- blankminded,
- bootless,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- calm,
- catchpenny,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- cockeyed,
- counterproductive,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dizzy,
- doting,
- dreamlike,
- dumb,
- effete,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- ethereal,
- etiolated,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- feckless,
- flaky,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- gaseous,
- goofy,
- gossamery,
- gulled,
- hollow,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imbecile,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incogitant,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- inoperative,
- insane,
- insensate,
- invalid,
- kooky,
- light,
- loony,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- moronic,
- nirvanic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- nutty,
- oblivious,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- passive,
- phantomlike,
- quietistic,
- rarefied,
- relaxed,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shadowy,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- spirituous,
- sterile,
- stupid,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- tenuous,
- thoughtfree,
- thoughtless,
- tranquil,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailing,
- unideaed,
- unintellectual,
- unoccupied,
- unreal,
- unreasoning,
- unthinking,
- unwitty,
- useless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- wacky,
- weak-minded,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless
- sterile
collapse
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
- incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" related words >
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- antiseptic,
- arid,
- aseptic,
- bare,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boiled,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- counterproductive,
- dead,
- decontaminated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disinfected,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hygienic,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- noncreative,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasteurized,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- profitless,
- prophylactic,
- pure,
- rewardless,
- sanitary,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterilized,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- unavailing,
- uncontaminated,
- uncreative,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- uninfected,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unplowed,
- unpolluted,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue,
- wooden,
- worn-out
- inadequate
collapse
- (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job"
- not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" related words >
- adulterated,
- arrested,
- asymmetric,
- barren,
- base,
- blemished,
- bootless,
- callow,
- counterproductive,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- disappointing,
- disheartening,
- disparate,
- displeasing,
- disproportionate,
- dissatisfactory,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- embryonic,
- empty,
- erroneous,
- etiolated,
- failing,
- fallible,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- faulty,
- feckless,
- forceless,
- found wanting,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- half-assed,
- hypoplastic,
- ill-matched,
- ill-qualified,
- ill-sorted,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- inaccurate,
- inane,
- inappreciable,
- incapable,
- incommensurate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inconsiderable,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexact,
- infant,
- inferior,
- inoperative,
- insufficient,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- irregular,
- lacking,
- little,
- makeshift,
- maladjusted,
- maladroit,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- minus,
- mismatched,
- missing,
- mixed,
- needing,
- not comparable,
- not enough,
- not equal to,
- not good enough,
- not in it,
- not perfect,
- not up to,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- odd,
- of no force,
- off,
- out of it,
- out of proportion,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- petty,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- scrimpy,
- shabby,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- skew,
- skewed,
- skimpy,
- small,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- too little,
- trivial,
- unable,
- unadapted,
- unadjusted,
- unavailing,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal,
- unequal to,
- unequipped,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unfit,
- unfitted,
- unfulfilling,
- ungratifying,
- unperfected,
- unqualified,
- unreached,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unskillful,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- useless,
- vain,
- wanting,
- weak
- Gascon,
- abortive,
- absurd,
- airy,
- arrogant,
- asinine,
- barren,
- baseless,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- bootless,
- bootlessly,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- catchpenny,
- cocky,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- counterproductive,
- coxcombical,
- dandyish,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- doomed,
- effete,
- egocentric,
- egoistic,
- egotistical,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- foppish,
- foredoomed,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fruitlessly,
- futile,
- futilely,
- gasconading,
- groundless,
- haughty,
- hollow,
- idle,
- ill-founded,
- improperly,
- in vain,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- light,
- misleading,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- overproud,
- overweening,
- paltry,
- petty,
- pointless,
- profitless,
- proud,
- puny,
- self-admiring,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-lauding,
- self-loving,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- self-vaunting,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- smug,
- sterile,
- stuck-up,
- superficial,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unbased,
- unfounded,
- ungrounded,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuccessfully,
- unsupportable,
- unsupported,
- unsustainable,
- unsustained,
- untenable,
- unwarranted,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- vainglorious,
- vainly,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- vaporing,
- vaunting,
- void,
- windy,
- without basis,
- without foundation,
- worthless
- futile
collapse
- producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" related words >
- abortive,
- absurd,
- airy,
- apish,
- asinine,
- bad,
- barren,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- bootless,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- catchpenny,
- cockeyed,
- counterproductive,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dizzy,
- doomed,
- doting,
- dumb,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flaky,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- foredoomed,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fuddled,
- gaga,
- goofy,
- gulled,
- hollow,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- imbecile,
- impolitic,
- impotent,
- improper,
- in vain,
- inadequate,
- inadvisable,
- inane,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- incongruous,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infatuated,
- infelicitous,
- inoperative,
- inopportune,
- insane,
- insufficient,
- invalid,
- kooky,
- lame,
- light,
- loony,
- mad,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- manque,
- maudlin,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- moronic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- nutty,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- out of place,
- profitless,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- stupid,
- successless,
- superficial,
- thoughtless,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unbefitting,
- undesirable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unmeet,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unsatisfactory,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- unwise,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- wacky,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless,
- worthless,
- wrong
- impotent
collapse
- lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"
- (of a male) unable to copulate related words >
- acarpous,
- aimless,
- anemic,
- arid,
- asexual,
- asthenic,
- barren,
- blank cartridge,
- bloodless,
- careless,
- castrated,
- castrato,
- celibate,
- chicken,
- childless,
- cold,
- cowardly,
- crippled,
- debilitated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disabled,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dry,
- dud,
- dull,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- emasculated,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- etiolated,
- eunuch,
- eunuchized,
- exhausted,
- faint,
- faintish,
- fallow,
- featherweight,
- feckless,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- forceless,
- frail,
- frigid,
- fruitless,
- frustrated,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- gelding,
- gone,
- gutless,
- helpless,
- imbecile,
- imprecise,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- indifferent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- infirm,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- leached,
- lenient,
- lightweight,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- loose,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- meaningless,
- menopausal,
- negligent,
- nerveless,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- no go,
- no-account,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- of no account,
- of no use,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- pithless,
- pointless,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- purposeless,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sexless,
- sine prole,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- soft,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- strengthless,
- sucked dry,
- superfluous,
- teemless,
- unauthoritative,
- unavailing,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unrestrained,
- unsexed,
- unsexual,
- unsown,
- unstrung,
- untilled,
- useless,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- weak,
- weakling,
- weakly,
- without any weight,
- without issue
- barren
collapse
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
- incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon"
- not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
- completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding" related words >
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- arid,
- bare,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- bleak,
- bloodless,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- clear,
- cold,
- colorless,
- counterproductive,
- dead,
- depleted,
- desert,
- desolate,
- devoid,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- earthbound,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featureless,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- impotent,
- impoverished,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- irreclaimable,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- literal,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- mundane,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- null,
- null and void,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- parched,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- poor,
- profitless,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- rewardless,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- staid,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stolid,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- unavailing,
- uncultivable,
- uncultivated,
- unfanciful,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unplowed,
- unpoetic,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unrelieved,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- void,
- waste,
- wasted,
- wasteland,
- white,
- wild,
- wilderness,
- wildness,
- with nothing inside,
- without content,
- without issue,
- wooden,
- worn-out
- unfortunate
collapse
- a person who suffers misfortune
- unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
- not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" related words >
- abortive,
- afflictive,
- apocalyptic,
- awful,
- awkward,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- bootless,
- calamitous,
- catastrophic,
- cursed,
- dark,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dismal,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
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