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ineffective

[ in-i-fek-tiv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not effective; not producing results; ineffectual:
ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
inefficient or incompetent; incapable:
an ineffective manager.
lacking in artistic effect, as a literary work, theatrical production, or painting.

ineffective

/ ˌɪnɪˈfɛktɪv /

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First recorded in 1645–55; in- ³ + effective

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As a Washington attorney, he took on companies that seemed immune to change, even when they were ineffective.

And eight months on, anger lingers over the ineffective attempts to rescue the missing schoolgirls.

Policy is an ineffective tool to address the cultural problem of privileging access over ownership.

And what if you put so many conditions on it that it makes any military operations ineffective?

They can dismiss ineffective instructors quickly if necessary.

Bruce demolished the castle; whether because it was of the old ineffective type, or because he had no means of holding it.

You may say, in the case of Sikes and the peer, that the logic of the Determinist is sound, but ineffective: nothing comes of it.

If the bombardment was ineffective, from whatever cause, then the men should not have been allowed to break cover.

Although the beat of a raindrop is proverbially light, the stroke is not ineffective.

Bacon was disgusted with ineffective logical speculations, and Socrates with ineffective physical researches.

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