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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

Meaning of "ineffectual" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INEFFECTUAL

ineffectual  [ˌɪnɪˈfɛktʃʊəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INEFFECTUAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ineffectual is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INEFFECTUAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ineffectual in the English dictionary

The definition of ineffectual in the dictionary is having no effect or an inadequate effect. Other definition of ineffectual is lacking in power or forcefulness; impotent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INEFFECTUAL


accentual
ækˈsɛntʃʊəl
actual
ˈæktʃʊəl
artifactual
ˌɑːtɪˈfæktʃʊəl
commutual
kəˈmjuːtʃʊəl
counterfactual
ˌkauntəˈfæktʃʊəl
eventual
ɪˈvɛntʃʊəl
factual
ˈfæktʃʊəl
instinctual
ɪnˈstɪŋktʃʊəl
intellectual
ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl
mutual
ˈmjuːtʃʊəl
nonconceptual
ˌnɒnkənˈsɛptʃʊəl
nonconsensual
ˌnɒnkənˈsenʃʊəl
noncontractual
ˌnɒnkənˈtræktʃʊəl
nonintellectual
ˌnɒnɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl
nonmutual
ˌnɒnˈmjuːtʃʊəl
pansexual
pænˈsɛkʃʊəl
prepunctual
priːˈpʌŋktʃʊəl
subtextual
ˈsʌbˌtɛkstʃʊəl
unintellectual
ˌʌnɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəl
virtual
ˈvɜːtʃʊəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INEFFECTUAL

ineffability
ineffable
ineffableness
ineffably
ineffaceability
ineffaceable
ineffaceably
ineffective
ineffectively
ineffectiveness
ineffectuality
ineffectually
ineffectualness
inefficacious
inefficaciously
inefficaciousness
inefficacity
inefficacy
inefficiency
inefficient

WORDS THAT END LIKE INEFFECTUAL

artefactual
aspectual
conceptual
conflictual
contactual
contextual
contractual
effectual
habitual
nonfactual
perpetual
punctual
revictual
ritual
spiritual
tactual
textual
unpunctual
victual
your actual

Synonyms and antonyms of ineffectual in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «INEFFECTUAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ineffectual» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ineffectual

Translation of «ineffectual» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INEFFECTUAL

Find out the translation of ineffectual to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ineffectual from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ineffectual» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不起作用的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inútil
570 millions of speakers

English

ineffectual
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निष्प्रभावी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير فعال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безрезультатно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ineficaz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিষ্ফল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inefficace
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berkesan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ineffektiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無駄な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

능력이 부족한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora angel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô hiệu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பலனற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्फळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

etkisiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inefficace
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieskuteczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безрезультатно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ineffectual
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναποτελεσματική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ondoeltreffend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ineffektiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ørkesløshet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ineffectual

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INEFFECTUAL»

The term «ineffectual» is regularly used and occupies the 77.379 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INEFFECTUAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ineffectual

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6 QUOTES WITH «INEFFECTUAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ineffectual.
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Nick Cave
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.
2
Paul Graham
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
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Frank Herbert
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
4
Preston Manning
For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.
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John Noble
Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.
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Bruce Schneier
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INEFFECTUAL»

Discover the use of ineffectual in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ineffectual and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Institutiones:
In such a case as this, we say the testaments become ineffectual, although those revoked, and those which, from the beginning, were not validly executed, may be equally well termed ineffectual, and so those, which, although at first validly ...
Gaius, Justinian I (Emperor of the East), Thomas Lambert Mears, 1882
2
The Dark Angel: Gothic Elements in Shelley's Works
And in poetry, no less than in life, he is 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' "l When one aligns Arnold's assertion with the obvious energetic revolutionary activity that courses through Shelley's ...
John V. Murphy, 1975
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New Manual; Or, Symptomen-codex
Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Charles Julius Hempel. 22. Urging in rectum, Ambr. gr. 23. Frequent ineffectual urging, attended with aversion to company and shy mood, Ambr. gr. 24. Ineffectual urging, followed by crampy feeling in a., Ambr. gr.
Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Charles Julius Hempel, 1853
4
Transaminases—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 ...
Whether cotreatment with ostensibly ineffectual (without effect on customary clinical liver function tests, such as aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase) doses of cadmium (Cd) and LPS cause liver damage is still unknown,” ...
‎2012
5
Concordance Repertory of the Materia Medica
Ineffectual u., only wind passes, with pressure in rectum. Carbo-v. Ineffectual u. to stool; rectum feels too weak to expel it. Kali-c. (Hep-s.) Ineffectual u. to stool every moment, with tenesmus in rectum. Merc. Ineffectual u. ; stool of large lumps of ...
William Doyle Gentry, 1998
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The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in ...
be nny effectual writing; and failing such effectual writing:, that the next of kin were to take : That if, by reason of death-bed, this deed of instructions is ineffectual, then the default has occurred, and the next of kin, by the law of England, must ...
‎1832
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Aristotle's Theory of Actuality
So, on the one hand a potential can be regarded as ineffectual, since insofar as it is merely a partial cause or a necessary condition it does not contain its end and may never actualize. On the other hand, however, insofar as the existence of a ...
Z. Bechler, 1995
8
Texbook On Contract Law Including Specific Relief
The word 'void' means nugatory, ineffectual or inoperative.1 Void in relation to juristic act, means without legal force, effect or consequence; not binding; invalid; null; worthless; cipher; useless; and ineffectual etc.2 The word 'void' has a relative ...
Meena R.L., 2008
9
Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior
... 1996), and gradually this perspective was supplanted by an object relations model wherein dependency was conceptualized as resulting from the internalization of a mental representation of the self as weak and ineffectual (Blatt , 1974).
Mark R. Leary, Rick H. Hoyle, 2013
10
Prayer
If we have been a Christian for three to five years without receiving one answer to prayer, we are ineffectual Christians. We are not just a little ineffectual, but very ineffectual. We are children of God, yet our prayers are never answered!
Watchman Nee, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INEFFECTUAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ineffectual is used in the context of the following news items.
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Athens, a City Scorned | Foreign Policy
... support the prime minister today are the ones who paved the way for his electoral victory in January through their own ineffectual handling of ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
2
Nuclear deal: Saudis signal they'll act before Iran gets the money …
The first priority for Riyadh's new offensive is Yemen, observers say, where it has been embroiled in a mostly ineffectual but deadly four-month ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
3
D'Angelo Russell, Julius Randle Face Challenge That Marquee …
Without elite upgrades, management has resorted to cost-cutting ragtag rosters, rendered even more ineffectual through a seemingly endless ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
4
Thomas the Tank Engine upstages 'Ant-Man' | The News Tribune …
Rudd's Lang is a nice — though pretty ineffectual — fellow out of the suit, and in the early going rather a bumbler to boot. Gets belted around ... «TheNewsTribune.com, Jul 15»
5
Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey talk Woody Allen film …
Depressed by what he believes is his ineffectual life, Abe takes matters into his own hands, setting off a chain of unforeseen events and ... «LA Daily News, Jul 15»
6
Viola Davis And J-Lo Go Full Bronson In 'Lila & Eve': Chicagoist
Filling the boilerplate role of the ineffectual cop on the case is Shea Whigham, who was so good in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, playing the ... «Chicagoist, Jul 15»
7
'Internet Plus' and the Salvation of China's Rural Economy | The …
... modern communications technology into them while maintaining strict social control, have been criticized as ineffectual and overly optimistic. «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
8
An Aging United Nations in 2015. But How About a New United …
No wonder people consider the UN to be ineffectual or irrelevant. The problem with the UN is not "Council deadlock" or "absence of political will ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Player ratings: Liverpool v Brisbane Roar - Fox Sports
New coach John Aloisi has a big wrap on Maclaren, making him one of his first signings, but the former Perth Glory striker was ineffectual in his ... «Fox Sports, Jul 15»
10
Still Stupid | The Weekly Standard
... a partisan policy stance—recently released a report arguing for an end to the oil export ban, which it described as at best ineffectual. «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»

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