feckless

adjwithout purpose

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adj without purpose

Antonyms for feckless

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happy-go-lucky

adjective. blithely unconcerned

Word Origin & History

1590s, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (late 15c.), Scottish shortened form of effect, + -less. Popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dialectal obscurity. Related: Fecklessly; fecklessness.

Example Sentences for feckless

"It caps all—you niver heard sec feckless wark," she was saying.

As for that feckless loon Bombazo, the peer body is best in bed.'

If ye miss that, ye must be as feckless at the sailoring as I have found ye at the fighting.

My love is so feckless, that it is a shame to offer it to Him!

Madam, let others take their silly, feckless heaven in this life.

“Frae sunset to sunset has this hand been feckless as a withered rush,” he said.

The feckless Finn seemed struck with the idea; it had not occurred to him before.

I thought men were too feckless to have curtains without a woman.

She glowered at the rows of feckless bodies that lay sprawled in the chairs.

It continued to be a "foreign" and "feckless" sort of instrument.

feckless

Synonyms for feckless

Antonyms for feckless

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happy-go-lucky

heedless

inadvertent

ineffective

ineffective/ineffectual

inefficacious

feckless

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heedless

inadvertent

ineffective

ineffective/ineffectual

inefficacious

Synonyms for feckless

happy-go-lucky