Syn. — Inefficient; useless; inefficacious; vain; fruitless; unavailing; futile. See Useless, Inefficacious.
Ineffectuality
(In`ef*fec`tu*al"i*ty) n. Ineffectualness. [R.]
Ineffectually
(In`ef*fec"tu*al*ly), adv. Without effect; in vain.
Hereford . . . had been besieged for about two months ineffectually by the Scots.
Ludlow. Ineffectualness
(In`ef*fec"tu*al*ness), n. Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy.
The ineffectualness of some men's devotion.
Wake. Ineffervescence
(In*ef`fer*ves"cence) n. Want of effervescence. Kirwan.
Ineffervescent
(In*ef`fer*ves"cent) a. Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
Ineffervescibility
(In*ef`fer*ves`ci*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being ineffervescible.
Ineffervescible
(In*ef`fer*ves"ci*ble) a. Not capable or susceptible of effervescence.
Inefficacious
(In*ef`fi*ca"cious) a. [Pref. in- not + efficacious: cf. F. inefficace, L. inefficax.] Not
efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent.
Boyle.
The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . to restrain the growth of disorders.
Burke. Ineffectual, says Johnson, rather denotes an actual failure, and inefficacious an habitual impotence to
any effect. But the distinction is not always observed, nor can it be; for we can not always know whether
means are inefficacious till experiment has proved them ineffectual. Inefficacious is therefore sometimes
synonymous with ineffectual.
Inefficaciously
(In*ef`fi*ca"cious*ly), adv. Without efficacy or effect.
Inefficaciousness
(In*ef`fi*ca"cious*ness), n. Want of effect, or of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.
Inefficacy
(In*ef"fi*ca*cy) n. [L. inefficacia. See In- not, and Efficacy.] Want of power to produce the
desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of
medicines or means.
The seeming inefficacy of censures.
Bp. Hall.
The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many similar medicines.
James Gregory. Inefficiency
(In`ef*fi"cien*cy) n. The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the
desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.
Inefficient
(In`ef*fi"cient) a.
1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as,
inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
Inefficiently
(In`ef*fi"cient*ly), adv. In an inefficient manner.
Inelaborate
(In`e*lab"o*rate) a. [L. inelaboratus. See In- not, and Elaborate.] Not elaborate; not wrought
with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.
