most ineffectual

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

Example Sentences

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Ruffini’s committee on the League of Nations, the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, would come to be remembered as “the most ineffectual enterprise.”

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2019

SAIGON: Spotted around the capital are three divisions that are generally conceded to be South Viet Nam's most ineffectual.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer stepped into his new role as czar of the city's public schools last week, he began the dirty work of dismantling one of the nation's most ineffectual public bureaucracies.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Business Roundtable is the most ineffectual lobby in Washington," contends Paul Weyrich, who heads a conservative lobby named the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a while he was keeplocked, but it was the most ineffectual keeplock I ever witnessed.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover