The meaning of Ineffectual

adjective

Lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness.

Usage examples:

By now, he was too feeble to leave his room

adjective

Weak

Usage examples:

A feeble joke, he’s pretty feeble, and has to use a cane to get around.

adjective

Feeling or causing despair.

Usage examples:

Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal

adjective

Without hope

Usage examples:

We tried to save the building, but it was a hopeless task (= it could not succeed).

adjective

Lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.

Usage examples:

These labels prove to be wholly inadequate

adjective

Too low in quality or too small in amount; not enough

Usage examples:

An inadequate income/offer, i feel inadequate when i talk to miranda about art because she knows so…

adjective

Too small in amount

Usage examples:

Inadequate funds/incomes/pensions too many of us are retiring on hopelessly inadequate incomes., th…

adjective

Unable to do or achieve (something).

Usage examples:

Wilson blushed and was incapable of speech

adjective

Unable to do something

Usage examples:

She’s incapable of hurting a fly.

adjective

Not producing the desired effect.

Usage examples:

Social conventions honed over thousands of years were suddenly inefficacious

adjective

Not achieving maximum productivity; wasting or failing to make the best use of time or resources.

Usage examples:

Inefficient transport systems

Not producing desired results; wasteful

adjective

Wasting time, money, energy, or other valuable possessions or qualities

Usage examples:

Many of their industries are hopelessly inefficient., she promised to end government inefficiency.,…

adjective

Having or showing no skill; clumsy.

Usage examples:

The referee's inept handling of the match

adjective

Not skilled or effective

Usage examples:

He was always pretty inept at sports., political/social/economic ineptitude

adjective

(especially of an animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot.

Usage examples:

His horse went lame

verb

Make (a person or animal) lame.

Usage examples:

He was badly lamed during the expedition

noun

Fabric with interwoven gold or silver threads.

Usage examples:

A gold lamé suit

adjective

Very poor or bad.

Usage examples:

The service is usually lousy

adjective

Bad or unpleasant

Usage examples:

The city does a lousy job of snow removal., i thought the movie was lousy.

adjective

Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.

Usage examples:

They were too poor to afford a telephone

adjective

Without ability, influence, or power.

Usage examples:

Troops were powerless to stop last night's shooting

adjective

Without the power to do something or to prevent something from happening

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] the government seems powerless to do anything about the rising price of oil.

adjective

Suffering from decay.

Usage examples:

Rotten eggs

adverb

To an extreme degree; very much.

Usage examples:

Your mother said that i spoiled you rotten

adjective

See at rot.

Usage examples:

A rotten trick, rotten behavior

adjective

(of a thing) not of the necessary quality or standard to meet a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

The land is unfit for food crops

verb

Make (something or someone) unsuitable; disqualify.

Usage examples:

They say that we are trying to give poor children tastes which will only unfit them for a life of h…

adjective

Lacking the qualities needed or expected for something; not suitable

Usage examples:

The court ruled that she was an unfit mother and ordered that the child be placed in a foster home.

adjective

Not producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

Usage examples:

Unproductive land must be reforested

adjective

Not useful, or not creating anything

Usage examples:

We wasted three days in unproductive discussions.

adjective

Not producing goods, crops, profits, etc. in a satisfactory amount

Usage examples:

Unproductive investments/jobs/projects, grass planted on currently unproductive land could form a u…

adjective

Not successful.

Usage examples:

An unsuccessful attempt to enter parliament

adjective

Not ending in success, or not achieving success

Usage examples:

After writing three unsuccessful plays, miller finally had a hit., howard’s been unsuccessfully loo…

adjective

Not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome.

Usage examples:

A piece of useless knowledge

adjective

Of no value; worthless

Usage examples:

With dead batteries, the flashlight was useless.