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[ in-i-fek-tiv ] / ˌɪn ɪˈfɛk tɪv / SEE SYNONYMS FOR ineffective ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot 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. Origin of ineffectiveFirst recorded in 1645–55; in-3 + effective OTHER WORDS FROM ineffectivein·ef·fec·tive·ly, adverbin·ef·fec·tive·ness, nounWords nearby ineffectiveineducable, ineducation, ineffable, ineffaceable, in effect, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficacy, inefficiency, inefficient Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ineffectiveSimply telling a content team to put their act together is an easy but ineffective decision. Content marketing fails: How to analyze and improve|Michael Doer|August 27, 2020|Search Engine Watch If an unsafe or ineffective vaccine goes into wide use, that will be a bigger setback than we’ll suffer if convalescent plasma proves a dud. The US just approved the use of plasma from covid-19 survivors as a treatment|Antonio Regalado|August 24, 2020|MIT Technology Review At the beginning of the pandemic, tests were unavailable, error prone, or simply ineffective. Tackling covid|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review Machine-learning researchers who fail to realize this and expect tools to work “off the shelf” often wind up creating ineffective models. Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant|Amy Nordrum|August 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
We could learn that the state has continued to fail and is ineffective and instead of the state, we have to turn to corporations. How to Prevent Another Great Depression (Ep. 421)|Stephen J. Dubner|June 11, 2020|Freakonomics As a Washington attorney, he took on companies that seemed immune to change, even when they were ineffective. Your Local School Doesn’t Have to Suck|Michael S. Roth|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST And eight months on, anger lingers over the ineffective attempts to rescue the missing schoolgirls. The New Face of Boko Haram’s Terror: Teen Girls|Nina Strochlic|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Policy is an ineffective tool to address the cultural problem of privileging access over ownership. How Young People Are Destroying Liberty|James Poulos|October 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST The problem for Hamas is that its digital campaign is as ineffective as its rocketry. Israel, Hamas, WhatsApp and Hacked Phones in the Gaza Psy-War|Itay Hod|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Inflated figures lead to ineffective policies and breed panic and over-reach. Is the Campus Rape Crisis Overblown?|Eleanor Clift|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST It does not deal effectively with either vagrant, incapable, or the special product of the industrial period, the ineffective. Glimpses into the Abyss|Mary Higgs On Voltaire's "Mahomet" he heaped censure, for its unworthy portraiture of the conqueror of the East and its ineffective fatalism. The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)|John Holland Rose A strong, inspiring personality is not a gift of the gods, nor is a weak and ineffective personality a visitation of Providence. How to Teach Religion|George Herbert Betts Then, the initial cutdown that I started was ineffective and infiltrated into the tissues. Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy The muscular sense may prove an adequate guide when the visual is ineffective. Voice Production in Singing and Speaking|Wesley Mills
British Dictionary definitions for ineffective
adjectivehaving no effect incompetent or inefficient Derived forms of ineffectiveineffectively, adverbineffectiveness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ineffectivefruitless, indecisive, worthless, unable, unproductive, inefficient, limited, inadequate, inept, null, impotent, powerless, feeble, ineffectual, futile, unsuccessful, unprofitable, incompetent, abortive, barren |