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单词 ineffectual
释义
ineffectual
adjective
formal
uk
/ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.əl/us
/ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.əl/
notskilledatachieving, or notabletoproduce, goodresults:
无能力的；不起作用的，无效果的
an ineffectualleader无能的领袖
Theteacherswere ineffectualatmaintainingdiscipline.这些老师无力维持纪律。
Synonym
unavailingformalorliterary
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ineffective
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
useless
  • uselessWe have cleared out carloads of useless junk.
  • no useMoney is no use if it's just sitting there.
  • serve no purposeSuch warnings serve no purpose other than to scare the public.
  • pointlessShe sees cleaning as a pointless exercise since everything is going to get dirty again.
  • worthlessThe majority of objects in the exhibition are worthless junk.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Useless and futile
  • a mug's gameidiom
  • adrift
  • aimless
  • aimlessly
  • aimlessness
  • airy-fairy
  • frivolous
  • frivolousness
  • fruitless
  • fruitlessly
  • fruitlessness
  • motiveless
  • negate
  • negation
  • no goodidiom
  • unfruitful
  • unrealistic
  • unrealistically
  • untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
  • unviability
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ineffectually
(Definition ofineffectualfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ineffectual| American Dictionary

ineffectual
adjective
us
/ˌɪn·ɪˈfek·tʃu·əl/
notabletoproducegoodresults:
an ineffectualteacher
(Definition ofineffectualfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofineffectual

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At worst, principle-based ethics serves as anineffectualchecklist, ensuring that patient rights are "covered" but giving little guidance to the moral practice of medicine.
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Although these particular companies lost their case, they were able to render the government's price controlsineffectualfor more than 18 months.
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Enforcement of the regulations has been comparativelyineffectualto date for a variety of reasons.
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Unfortunately, the latter solution isineffectualwhen the unknown angles are larger than 30°.
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However, this act seems to have beenineffectual, suggesting something of what the gilds themselves thought of the idea.
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Both the 1925 and 1927 resolutions were largelyineffectual, however.
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All methods of supporting populousness, except by the interest of the proprietors, are violent andineffectual.
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Investment was booming, and government attempts to control it in the initial period after 1945 were seriouslyineffectual.
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The dominated character of these constraints renders themineffectualin ruling out pickle as the output for input puzzle.
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After all, beyond the oftenineffectualsetting fire to fences, incendiarism would be of little use in the initial physical opposition to enclosure.
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The allowance of petty gambling creates unimagined disorder, but, law-makers feared, the arbitrary andineffectualpolicing of such activities also yields a bitter harvest.
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Despite its undeserved popular reputation as an aphrodisiac, opium was probablyineffectualin that regard.
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But in itself the line between the therapeutic and the enhancing isineffectual.
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The result would be a life of holiness without theineffectual(merely human) effort and attendant anxiety of the precisianist strain.
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Feeding is poor, since the suckling reflex is unco-ordinated andineffectual.
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