Related Words:
- harmful
collapse - causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
- able or likely to do harm related words >
- adverse,
- antagonistic,
- bad,
- bad for,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- bitchy,
- conflicting,
- contaminated,
- contrary,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- counterproductive,
- cussed,
- damaging,
- dangerous,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- disadvantageous,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- evil,
- foul,
- hard,
- hateful,
- hazardous,
- hostile,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- in opposition,
- inimical,
- iniquitous,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- invidious,
- lethal,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- mischievous,
- miserable,
- morbific,
- nasty,
- noisome,
- not easy,
- noxious,
- ominous,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- ornery,
- pathogenic,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- pestiferous,
- poisonous,
- polluted,
- prejudicial,
- rigorous,
- risky,
- scatheful,
- septic,
- sinister,
- stressful,
- tainted,
- toxic,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- unadvantageous,
- unfavorable,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unprofitable,
- unrewarding,
- unsafe,
- unsanitary,
- untoward,
- unwholesome,
- useless,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- wicked,
- worthless,
- wretched
- 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
- pointless
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- lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
- not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless" related words >
- abrupt,
- absurd,
- aimless,
- arid,
- asinine,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- blunt-edged,
- blunt-ended,
- blunt-pointed,
- blunted,
- bluntish,
- bootless,
- characterless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dull-edged,
- dull-pointed,
- dulled,
- dullish,
- dusty,
- edgeless,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- faired,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- impotent,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inexcitable,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- meaningless,
- no go,
- nonsensical,
- obtuse,
- of no use,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- preposterous,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- ridiculous,
- rounded,
- senseless,
- silly,
- slow,
- smoothed,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stupid,
- superficial,
- superfluous,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- unavailing,
- unedged,
- unlively,
- unmeaning,
- unpointed,
- unproductive,
- unsharp,
- unsharpened,
- useless,
- vain,
- vapid,
- wooden,
- worthless
- meaningless
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- 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
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- 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
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- (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
- worthless
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- lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler" related words >
- NG,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath notice,
- blameworthy,
- bootless,
- brutal,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- defective,
- deleterious,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- disadvantageous,
- disgusting,
- disserviceable,
- dreadful,
- dusty,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- flawed,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- imperfect,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- ineffectual,
- infamous,
- inferior,
- injurious,
- junk,
- junky,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- mean,
- meaningless,
- mediocre,
- meretricious,
- meritless,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- noisome,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nothing,
- notorious,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- prejudicial,
- purposeless,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- second-rate,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unadvantageous,
- unavailing,
- unclean,
- unfavorable,
- unprofitable,
- unpurposed,
- unqualified,
- unrewarding,
- unworthy,
- unworthy of regard,
- useless,
- valueless,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woeful,
- worst,
- wretched
- hopeless
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- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
- certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
- of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" related words >
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- Pollyanna,
- absurd,
- affording no hope,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- bad,
- barred,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bleak,
- bootless,
- cheerless,
- closed-out,
- comatose,
- comfortless,
- contrary to reason,
- cureless,
- deadly,
- deficient,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- desensitized,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- detached,
- disconsolate,
- discouraged,
- disinterested,
- dismal,
- done for,
- downcast,
- dull,
- dying,
- excluded,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fatal,
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- futile,
- given up,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- going,
- gone,
- grim,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- hoper,
- immedicable,
- impossible,
- impracticable,
- in a stupor,
- in articulo mortis,
- in despair,
- in extremis,
- inadequate,
- incapable of life,
- incompetent,
- inconceivable,
- inconsolable,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indifferent,
- inept,
- inferior,
- insoluble,
- insouciant,
- irredeemable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irretrievable,
- languid,
- lethal,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- logically impossible,
- lost,
- low,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- morose,
- near death,
- nonchalant,
- nonviable,
- not possible,
- numb,
- numbed,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- pointless,
- poor,
- preposterous,
- prohibited,
- resigned,
- ridiculous,
- ruled-out,
- sad,
- self-contradictory,
- sinking,
- slack,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- sorrowful,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stoic,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- terminal,
- torpid,
- unavailing,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- uncorrectable,
- unfit,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- unimaginable,
- uninterested,
- unqualified,
- unthinkable,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- vain,
- withdrawn,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- worthless,
- wretched
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- unfavorable
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- (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose; "unfavorable winds"
- not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments", "unfavorable impression"
- not favorable; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews" related words >
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- against,
- alien,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- clashing,
- competitive,
- con,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- cross,
- dark,
- deleterious,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- dire,
- disaccordant,
- disadvantageous,
- disappointed,
- disapprobatory,
- disapproving,
- discontented,
- disenchanted,
- disgruntled,
- disillusioned,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- disserviceable,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- enemy,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- fractious,
- gloomy,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-timed,
- improper,
- in opposition,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenient,
- indignant,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inimical,
- injurious,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- late,
- low,
- lowering,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- menacing,
- miserable,
- mistimed,
- negative,
- noncooperative,
- not easy,
- obstinate,
- of evil portent,
- off base,
- ominous,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- out of line,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- overthwart,
- perverse,
- poor,
- portending,
- portentous,
- prejudicial,
- premature,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- repugnant,
- rigorous,
- rival,
- sinister,
- somber,
- stressful,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- turned-off,
- unadvantageous,
- unappreciative,
- unapproving,
- unbefitting,
- uncomplimentary,
- uncooperative,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unfriendly,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprofitable,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unready,
- unrewarding,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- useless,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong
- puny
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- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses" related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cadaverous,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corpselike,
- cramped,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- effeminate,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- exiguous,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frugal,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- haggard,
- half-pint,
- hollow-eyed,
- impoverished,
- inconsequential,
- inferior,
- infirm,
- insignificant,
- jejune,
- jerkwater,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- knee-high,
- lean,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limited,
- little,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- midget,
- minor,
- minute,
- miserly,
- namby-pamby,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nugatory,
- one-horse,
- paltry,
- papery,
- parsimonious,
- pasteboardy,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- petite,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pinched,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- pygmy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- shattery,
- short,
- shriveled,
- sickly,
- sissified,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- starved,
- starveling,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tacky,
- thin,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- underdeveloped,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- unimportant,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- useless,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weazeny,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- worthless,
- wraithlike
- barren
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- 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
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- 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,
- donsie,
- doomed,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- forlorn,
- fortuneless,
- fruitless,
- funest,
- futile,
- gloomy,
- graceless,
- grievous,
- hapless,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- heartbreaking,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-advised,
- ill-boding,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- impolitic,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inadvisable,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- inauspicious,
- incongruous,
- inconvenient,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- lame,
- lamentable,
- late,
- loser,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- malefic,
- manque,
- menacing,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- miserable,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- of no effect,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of place,
- out of time,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poor unfortunate,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- regrettable,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- sad sack,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- starred,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- sure loser,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- tragic,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- undesirable,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmeet,
- unprofitable,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwise,
- upsetting,
- useless,
- victim,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- wrong
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