more ineffectual

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weak, useless adj.
useless adj.

ADJECTIVE

weak, useless

Synonyms

WEAK

abortive anticlimactic barren bootless defeasible feckless feeble forceless fruitless futile idle impotent inadequate incompetent indecisive inefficacious inefficient inept inferior innocuous inoperative invertebrate lame limited neutralized nugatory null null and void paltry powerless spineless unable unavailing unfruitful unproductive unprofitable unsuccessful vain void withered worthless

Antonyms

WEAK

competent effective effectual efficient powerful strong useful

ADJECTIVE

useless

Synonyms

STRONGEST

futile impotent inadequate ineffective inefficient insufficient unproductive

WEAK

hopeless idle unable unavailing vain weak

Antonyms

STRONGEST

able adequate capable competent enough productive sufficient

WEAK

effective effectual

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more ineffectual

Making him look more ineffectual was striding alongside world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, the 2016 U.S.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 15, 2018

But it does seem plausible that his embarrassment over the actions he has taken makes him appear even more ineffectual than he is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2015

Then, the debates moved out of the agency and into the courts, and citizen input began to look even more ineffectual.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2014

Facing him, the Mets were even more ineffectual than usual in a 2-1 loss.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2013

I think they must have been given to feeble remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and more ineffectual.

From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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