feckless

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Lacking purpose.

   • It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman.
2. 2

   Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.

3. 3

   Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.

   • China is “proving to be a feckless friend for its authoritarian allies,” Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China under President Joe Biden, wrote on X.
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   1. 4

      Lacking vitality.

The neighborhood

• antonymeffectiveantonym(s) of “weak, ineffective”
• antonymefficientantonym(s) of “weak, ineffective”
• antonymmeaningfulantonym(s) of “weak, ineffective”
• antonymusefulantonym(s) of “weak, ineffective”
• antonympurposefulantonym(s) of “worthless, irresponsible”
• antonymcarefulantonym(s) of “worthless, irresponsible”
• antonymresponsibleantonym(s) of “worthless, irresponsible”
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