feckless

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Related terms 1.3.4 Translations 1.3.5 External links

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Scots, feck (“‘effect’”), aphetic form of effect

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP, US) IPA: /ˈfɛkləs/, /ˈfɛklɪs/
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[edit] Adjective

feckless (comparative more feckless, superlative most feckless)

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." — Canberra Times, September 10, 2005

2. Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
3. (British) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
4. (British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

[edit] Synonyms

feeble futile hopeless ineffective

ineffectual meaningless unpurposed useless

worthless aimless careless reckless irresponsible

[edit] Antonyms

effective efficient

purposeful useful

careful responsible

[edit] Related terms

• fecklessly
• fecklessness

[edit] Translations

[edit] External links

• feckless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• feckless in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911