inefficaciousadj.
/ɪnɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs/ Of a remedy, treatment, course of action, etc.: Not efficacious; without efficacy.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective
deadc1380
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inficient1609
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unofficious1611
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invalidable1634
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unprevalent1640
ineffectible1650
ineffective1651
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foisonlessc1817
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non-effective1862
non-efficient1863
shaftless1881
powder puff1911
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1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude in Wks. (1871) V. 178 The devils assent..is not a naked and inefficacious assent, but such as causeth horror and tremblings.
1769 Town & Country Mag. Sept. 473/1 His remedy proved inefficacious.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vi. 168 The precaution..is quite inefficacious.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 387 It did not inevitably follow that his contract was inefficacious.
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