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bootless collapse: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

feckless collapse: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"; not fit to assume responsibility

useless collapse: having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

otiose collapse: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

ineffective collapse: 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"

good-for-nothing collapse: without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"

shallow collapse: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"; not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"; lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"; become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"; make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

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"

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"

futile collapse: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

frivolous collapse: not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"

cheap collapse: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"; embarrassingly stingy

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"

windy collapse: resembling the wind in speed,force, or variability; "a windy dash home"

flimsy collapse: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"; resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"; very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

vapid collapse: lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"

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