Definition of Ineffectual
Ineffectual
Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.
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Ineffectual Quotations
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
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
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Susan Sontag
Ineffectual Translations
ineffectual in German is untauglich
ineffectual in Latin is irritus, inritus irritus, inefficax
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