What is another word for ineffective?
777 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɪnɪfˈɛktɪv], [ ɪnɪfˈɛktɪv], [ ɪ_n_ɪ_f_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]
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Similar words for ineffective:
- abortive (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- disappointing (adjective)
- feckless (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- impotent (adjective)
- incapable (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inefficient (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- lame (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- null (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- otiose (adjective)
- pale (adjective)
- pointless (adjective)
- powerless (adjective)
- spineless (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- unfit (adjective)
- unproductive (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- unworkmanlike (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- void (adjective)
- wan (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- wishy-washy (adjective)
- worthless (adjective)
- ineffective (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- defeated (verb)
- other synonyms
- broken-down
- profitless
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ineffective:
adj.
• abortive (adjective) • cowardly (adjective) • disappointing (adjective) • feckless (adjective) • fruitless (adjective) • futile (adjective)- trifling,
- hollow,
- delusive,
- unsubstantial,
- forlorn,
- impracticable,
- valueless,
- unsatisfactory,
- unreal,
- unneeded,
- exhausted,
- unimportant,
- insufficient,
- trivial.
- incapacitated,
- enfeebled,
- crippled,
- forceless,
- enervated,
- frail,
- in firm,
- paper tiger,
- Infecund,
- prostrate,
- effete,
- nerveless,
- gutless,
- infirm.
- losing,
- unqualified,
- unsuited,
- butterfingers,
- naive,
- ineligible,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- disqualified,
- inexperienced.
- limited,
- withered,
- indecisive,
- no go,
- barren,
- inferior,
- unprofitable,
- not effective,
- bootless,
- paltry,
- no way,
- emasculate,
- innocuous,
- slack-spined,
- unavailable.
- in-efficacious,
- de-feasible,
- anti climactic,
- most defeasible,
- de feasible,
- in efficacious,
- most neutralized,
- most anticlimactic,
- more neutralized,
- more defeasible,
- anti-climactic,
- more anticlimactic,
- in nocuous,
- in-nocuous.
- slipshod,
- unprepared,
- disorganized,
- improvident,
- slovenly,
- slack,
- improficient,
- prodigal,
- untrained,
- sloppy,
- half-baked,
- extravagant.
- more unsanctioned,
- in-operative,
- un sanctioned,
- in valid,
- non existent,
- most unsanctioned,
- null void,
- in-valid,
- more nothing,
- most characterless,
- most nothing,
- un-sanctioned,
- in operative.
- unworkmanlike,
- to no avail,
- butterfingered,
- on a treadmill,
- unpromising,
- ill-adapted,
- unpleasing,
- out the window,
- unfitted,
- otiose,
- doughier,
- needle in haystack,
- futile,
- abortive,
- useless,
- nongermane,
- around in circles,
- unenforceable,
- in vicious circle,
- Gainless,
- to no purpose,
- whitish,
- unfit,
- to no effect,
- unequipped,
- weak,
- disappointing,
- faint-hearted,
- inefficacious,
- can't make the grade,
- anticlimactic,
- not pertinent,
- save one's breath,
- uncool,
- not equal to,
- no effect,
- not up to,
- unsanctioned,
- Waterish,
- unavailing,
- unproductive,
- Unhandy,
- spinning one's wheels,
- Purportless,
- void,
- out of shape,
- feckless,
- worthless,
- doughy,
- not cut out for,
- out of place,
- ill-equipped,
- unpersuasive,
- no avail,
- Resultless,
- wan,
- amoebalike,
- powerless,
- can't hack it,
- pale,
- unproficient,
- not viable,
- no-good,
- defeasible,
- non-germane,
- Non-existent,
- Pithless,
- bilious,
- pointless,
- disenfranchised,
- in vain,
- laid low,
- characterless,
- yellow-bellied,
- out of gas,
- fruitless,
- not fit,
- no dice,
- null,
- no purpose,
- shooting blanks,
- no-account,
- on treadmill,
- washed out,
- inproficient,
- Butter-fingered,
- unprolific,
- unratified.
- in-substantial,
- waxlike,
- most whitish,
- washed-out,
- most bleached,
- more whitish,
- most waxlike,
- doughiest,
- in substantial,
- more bleached,
- more waxlike,
- washedout,
- pasty.
- more purportless,
- non germane,
- in significant,
- un interesting,
- around circles,
- in-consequential,
- needle haystack,
- un necessary,
- going nowhere,
- most nongermane,
- re-mote,
- in consequential,
- more nongermane,
- un-necessary,
- most purportless.
- more disenfranchised,
- de-pendent,
- more chicken,
- wimper,
- out gas,
- most disenfranchised,
- most etiolated,
- wimpest,
- un-armed,
- de pendent,
- most chicken,
- wimp,
- un armed,
- more etiolated,
- dis-enfranchised,
- dis enfranchised.
- more yellow bellied,
- in vertebrate,
- in-vertebrate,
- weak willed,
- most weakkneed,
- faint hearted,
- weakkneed,
- most weak-kneed,
- most amoebalike,
- most yellow-bellied,
- more weakkneed,
- most faint-hearted,
- more amoebalike,
- weakwilled,
- lilylivered,
- more weak-kneed,
- sub missive,
- weak-kneed,
- most pithless,
- most invertebrate,
- more weak kneed,
- most weak kneed,
- more invertebrate,
- most yellowbellied,
- more yellowbellied,
- more pithless,
- more faint hearted,
- most yellow bellied,
- yellowbellied,
- most faint hearted,
- yellow bellied,
- weak kneed,
- more yellow-bellied,
- lily livered,
- more faint-hearted.
- more unproficient,
- illequipped,
- un handiest,
- un-apter,
- un meetest,
- more ill-adapted,
- in-felicitous,
- ill suited,
- un-healthiest,
- most ill equipped,
- un handy,
- un handier,
- in-applicable,
- most unproficient,
- un becoming,
- un-handier,
- mis taken,
- most blundering,
- un-meeter,
- un-fitted,
- in-harmonious,
- most butterfingered,
- more ill adapted,
- heavy handed,
- ill adapted,
- un-proficient,
- more ill equipped,
- un-handy,
- most unfitted,
- un promising,
- un likeliest,
- more unpromising,
- most ill-equipped,
- un-becoming,
- most ill adapted,
- out element,
- un healthier,
- un-meet,
- in correct,
- most butter fingered,
- heavyhanded,
- un meet,
- un aptest,
- can't make grade,
- un apter,
- un-aptest,
- illsuited,
- most ill-adapted,
- most unpromising,
- in-appropriate,
- unmeetest,
- more butter fingered,
- in appropriate,
- un fitted,
- un likely,
- most amateur,
- butter fingered,
- un fit,
- un-likely,
- in compatible,
- un-fit,
- un-likelier,
- more illequipped,
- unhandiest,
- un healthy,
- un proficient,
- out of element,
- un likelier,
- un healthiest,
- more amateur,
- more blundering,
- in-expedient,
- most illadapted,
- in felicitous,
- un-meetest,
- cant make the grade,
- unhandier,
- un congenial,
- in-compatible,
- ill equipped,
- in congruous,
- more butterfingered,
- more ill-equipped,
- un-promising,
- un meeter,
- in applicable,
- in harmonious,
- illadapted,
- in-congruous,
- un-congenial,
- more unfitted,
- out shape,
- out place,
- cant make grade,
- unpracticed,
- Unmeet,
- un-practiced,
- un-healthy,
- un practiced,
- most butter-fingered,
- more butter-fingered,
- in expedient,
- unmeeter,
- more illadapted,
- most illequipped.
- most thwarted,
- more foiled,
- un-lucky,
- illfated,
- un successful,
- un lucky,
- un-luckier,
- more thwarted,
- most foiled,
- un luckier,
- un luckiest,
- un-successful,
- ill fated.
- unworkable,
- unserviceable,
- unusuable,
- Unpurposed,
- nonfunctional,
- counter-productive,
- unusable,
- non-functional,
- unfunctional,
- detrimental,
- scrapper.
n.
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- incapable,
- bungling,
- someone couldn't do something if they tried,
- neutralized,
- awful,
- poor,
- helpless,
- unfruitful,
- inexpert,
- amateur,
- inept.
- inefficient,
- mooch,
- flabby,
- desultory,
- unwieldy,
- good-for-nothing,
- dud,
- bird,
- blind alley,
- empty,
- ineffectual,
- pants,
- negate,
- pathetic,
- inexpedient,
- incompetent,
- window dressing,
- feeble,
- outlive,
- expendable,
- loose,
- moon around,
- lost,
- frivolous,
- unfavourable,
- use,
- deckchair,
- unable,
- profitless,
- eye candy,
- hopeless,
- Hell,
- uneffective,
- vainly,
- door,
- romantic,
- airy-fairy,
- directionless,
- meaningless,
- quixotic,
- adrift,
- purposeless,
- dead loss,
- water,
- flaccid,
- inoperative,
- past,
- inane,
- pitiful,
- job,
- fool's errand,
- idle,
- good,
- dream,
- self-defeating,
- vain,
- ornamental,
- headless,
- motiveless,
- nugatory,
- aimless,
- mug,
- blue,
- shuffle,
- show,
- mess,
- moon,
- nothing,
- unrealistic,
- chase,
- impotent,
- impractical,
- inadequate.
v.
• defeated (verb)Other synonyms:
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- muddled,
- spent,
- facile,
- uninformative,
- bum,
- infertile,
- small-time,
- Overworked,
- defective,
- muted,
- unhelpful,
- defunct,
- moribund,
- outworn,
- nonoperational.
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- paper,
- dysfunctional,
- valiant,
- cumbersome,
- unreliable,
- unproven,
- unresponsive,
- inoperable,
- lame,
- paralyzed,
- porous,
- bush-league,
- anemic.
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- old.
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- dead.
- cowardly,
- deter,
- inefficiently,
- senseless,
- lackadaisical,
- Whey-faced,
- craven,
- insubstantial,
- unassertive,
- avert,
- frustrate,
- ineffectuality,
- nullity,
- featherweight,
- invalid,
- of no moment,
- Unpractical,
- inapt,
- maladjusted,
- disabled,
- unfortunate,
- timid,
- silly,
- disconcert,
- ineffectiveness,
- wishy-washy,
- of no avail,
- vacation,
- obstruct,
- slothful,
- vacuity,
- uninspired,
- halfhearted,
- unrewarding,
- nonsensical,
- Unapt,
- dishearten,
- gauche,
- retiring,
- nothingness,
- unsound,
- lazy,
- fatuous,
- inconsequential,
- untrue,
- powerlessness,
- inability,
- vacuum,
- timorous,
- free time,
- ineffectively,
- absurd,
- ne'er-do-well,
- Floundering,
- limp,
- shoddy,
- pyrrhic,
- disappoint,
- namby-pamby,
- uninfluential,
- lily-livered,
- Fatuitous,
- impotency,
- not binding,
- unmotivated,
- low,
- talentless,
- spare time,
- Unauthoritative,
- vanity,
- conceit,
- fail,
- uncaring,
- unenterprising,
- sisyphean,
- wet,
- of no use,
- repudiated,
- unadjusted,
- elude,
- inutile,
- emptily,
- incapable of,
- confound,
- insignificant,
- unremunerative,
- etiolated,
- discomfit,
- anaemic,
- indispose,
- Successless,
- non-productive,
- pusillanimous,
- of no effect,
- not able,
- costly,
- prevent,
- ineffectually,
- unconducive,
- wrong,
- impaired,
- unambitious,
- unsturdy,
- Hamstrung,
- circumvent,
- upset,
- indolent,
- counteract,
- stop,
- vacant,
- lightweight,
- asinine,
- stupid,
- unendowed,
- chicken,
- disqualify,
- unadapted,
- Stickit,
- superfluous,
- weakness,
- inconclusive,
- stillborn,
- time-consuming,
- time-wasting,
- non-functioning,
- lukewarm,
- blankness,
- dresser,
- Effet,
- unskilful,
- of no account,
- incorrect,
- discompose,
- foolish,
- irrelevant,
- uninitiated,
- impotence,
- Ungifted,
- imperfect,
- spiritless,
- clumsy,
- yellow,
- untalented,
- meek,
- ease,
- puny,
- emptiness,
- vacancy,
- Miscarrying,
- Half-hearted,
- handless,
- distract,
- meagre,
- untenable,
- armless,
- weak-willed,
- lifeless,
- idleness,
- leisure,
- manque,
- false,
- ridiculous,
- erroneous,
- implausible,
- preposterous,
- tame,
- deficient,
- spurious,
- irresolute,
- maladroit,
- Nul,
- crude,
- ineffectualness,
- Chicken-hearted,
- wasteful,
- balk,
- discourage,
- undirected,
- Pococurante,
- nullified,
- awkward,
- counterproductive,
- disability,
- uneconomical,
- deskbound,
- Annulled,
- convenience,
- addle.
How to use "Ineffective" in context?
The term "ineffective" is often used to describe someone or something that is not effective in achieving their goals. It can be used as a noun or verb. noun: an individual or thing that is ineffective in achieving their goals. verb: to make (something) ineffective in achieving its goals. Ineffective can also be used as an adjective to describe someone or something who is ineffective.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
ineffectual, inefficient.
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Proper noun, singular
inefficient.
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Noun, singular or mass
inefficient.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
effective.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
ineffectiveness.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Adjective
cost-effective, dysfunctional, effectiveness, efficacious, efficacy, efficiency, futile, helpless, inactive, inappropriate, incapable, incompetent, inconclusive, inept, insufficient, invalid, irrelevant, meaningless, pointless, successful, superfluous, unfit, unhelpful, unnecessary, unsatisfactory, unwieldy, unworkable, vain, valid, wasteful, worthless, no-effect.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
counterproductive, deficient, efficient, fruitless, impotent, inadequate, inoperable, inoperative, poor, powerless, toothless, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, weak.
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Noun, singular or mass
inefficiency.
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Adjective
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