Ineffectual is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INEFFECTUAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• not producing the proper or intended effect
• not producing any significant or desired effect
• (of a person) lacking the ability or qualities to fulfil a role or handle a situation
• Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.
• not producing an intended effect
• producing no result or effect
• lacking in power or forcefulness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not producing the proper or intended effect; futile

Words related to INEFFECTUAL

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Words that contain INEFFECTUAL

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How to use INEFFECTUAL in a sentence

• If it be confined to the latter it will have no precise signification, and it will be ineffectual for the purpose intended.
• After repeated, but ineffectual efforts to burst open the door, Leonard gave up the attempt in despair, and endeavoured to make his situation known by loud outcries.
• Oddly enough, this boy, who was once thought greater than his sister Emily, was curiously akin to the weak and ineffectual Anne.
• But something cold and hostile existed in the atmosphere and paralyzed her smiles, leaving her words without echo and making ineffectual the splendors of her eyes.
• Their talk throughout was trifling and ineffectual, as it had begun.
• The remaining seven thousand three hundred are quite ineffectual.
• Though great efforts were made by a few colored men to bring the murderer to punishment, they were all ineffectual.
• After an ineffectual effort to compose his excited feelings, he bowed his head on the table, and wept like a child.
• He went out from the house and shook his ineffectual fists at the stirring quiet of the stars.
• As the convoy entered, the besiegers opened a tremendous cannonade, which was ineffectual, however, to stop the landing of the stores.
• A fall, a sullen splash, one brief ineffectual struggle, and then black darkness.
• Stevens and Seward had been introduced to politics by the ineffectual and absurd anti-Masonic party, which flitted across the stage in the early thirties.
• He was, however, overtaken, and, after an ineffectual attempt to drown himself, was arrested, and thrown into prison.
• The upper house demanded a free conference, which proved ineffectual.
• The result of that inquiry was, that these laws were ineffectual.
• As in China, so in Japan, American and Russian jealousy played an unworthy and not altogether ineffectual part.
• Great but ineffectual efforts were made to induce the people of Puerto Rico to follow the example of the colonies on the continent and proclaim their independence.
• Finding their efforts to fire the fort ineffectual, they returned again to their arms, and continued to fire upon the station for some days.
• Perceiving how wholly ineffectual their efforts appeared, she advanced towards them.
• Monsieur awoke as I was sitting thus, in ineffectual effort to compose myself.
• Their course, diverging from Lone Star Mountain, led them now directly to the bend of the creek, the base of their old ineffectual operations.
• To have written a grammar for such as are not yet initiated in the schools, would have been tedious, and perhaps at last ineffectual.
• I pulled myself up with an effort, and finding the surroundings of the yard so ineffectual as a stimulus, I wandered down the hill towards the wood.
• What was she after all? Finally, however, I wrote to Dorothy as best I could and after many ineffectual trials at expressing myself.
• In no country could the Executive do more to render laws ineffectual than in Ireland.
• If you have no sense of need, the message that there is a supply will fall perfectly ineffectual upon your ears.
• Still it seemed to him that they were not entirely unknown, and he tormented himself with ineffectual attempts to determine where he had seen them.
• By good fortune he avoided the influences of his early training, which was too ineffectual to leave any permanent mark upon him.

Similar words containing EFFECTU without suffix al and without prefix in

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