Definition of feckless in English:

feckless

adjective ˈfɛkləsˈfɛkləs

Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.
her feckless younger brother
Example sentencesExamples
- His feckless mother left him with her family in Denbighshire when he was still an infant, and his uncles paid a couple to care for him until he was six years old.
- Their shared affection for the warmhearted, feckless Martin is a further bond between them.
- She may be a feckless and incompetent parent, but that is no reason for her not being treated properly.
- Working in Carnaby Street would exacerbate my ire, because it attracts all sorts of feckless tourists.
- All it did was make life easier for the lazy and feckless middle-class students, who were one of the products of the 1960s.
- Maybe their feckless mothers waste money smoking and drinking?
- Britain's 11 million pensioners punch above their weight because - unlike the feckless young - they still retain the habit of voting, and many of them vote Tory.
- Ever year they spew out a healthy amount of guileless, enthusiastic, hard working feckless idiots, ready to be put to work by their seniors.
- Some feel the poor are at least partly to blame; to have got themselves into such a state, they must be feckless and corrupt, or at least irresponsible.
- They are like wives midway through marriage therapy designed to reconcile and foster a new beginning with a feckless husband who has perpetually let them down.
- Aidan Gillen is completely convincing as Frank, a set designer for television who is trying to negotiate the transition from feckless student existence to adult responsibility, complete with mortgage and steady girlfriend.
- Now, after seven years in reform school, he is adjusting to life on the outside in the company of his feckless father.
- Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible.
- But when we actually get on TV, we are relatively feckless and ineffective.
- The other villain of course is the absent, feckless father.
- Your feckless neighbour, however, will get the full range of government help.
- Yet still the broadcasting companies swallowed the government line, and there was a sudden demand for a different sort of political programme, one that would engage the feckless viewer - and especially the young feckless viewer.
- At 21, Caroline took up with a feckless playboy 17 years her senior.
- When they do eventually arrive here, feckless ministers like to lecture us on how we should conduct our business.
- Either they are feckless and troublesome, or they are being handed exams on a plate.
- Unruly pupils and feckless parents went with the territory.
- Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment.
- In one of those stupidities that mark a life of bad choices, a quite verbal, witty, but somewhat feckless woman became my business partner.
- The company's line was that it was putting on a music show and doing everything reasonable, and a bit more, to protect feckless people from themselves.
- Whatever happened to the traditional, feckless student?
- But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically.
- Secondly, we convinced them that we were a wealthy, feckless country that would not fight.
- So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars.
- There are feckless and irresponsible young fathers out there.
- He's not just slobby - he's feckless, almost amoral and as a result Rachel becomes a moral compass for him as much as a lead for the film.
- So the older brother became a rather feckless Oxford undergraduate just about to begin his own career.
- For a younger more feckless child this kind of behaviour might be acceptable, but he was too old to be still in his pyjamas in the street.
- Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government.
- I don't think it's because Glasgow people are particularly feckless.
- Many headteachers will feel that such a role could undermine the need to establish a constructive relationship with parents, however feckless and irresponsible they may be.
- Well, his millionaire dad stipulated in his will that the feckless Josh wasn't to get a penny of his inheritance unless he wrote a bestseller.
- To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade.
Synonyms
useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well
lazy, idle, slothful, indolent, shiftless, spiritless, apathetic, aimless, unambitious, unenterprising
informal no-good, no-account, lousy

Derivatives

fecklessly

adverb

Therefore, we need men and women in both parties who understand its gravity and who, whatever they think of the tactics or the domestic agendas of their rivals, will not fecklessly cut and run if they reach the White House.
Example sentencesExamples
- The major common factor with people who make resolutions is that the vast majority break them within hours or days of making them, yet will fecklessly resolve again in similar fashion the same time next year.
- Jenkins then goes on to discredit younger consumers as fecklessly fickle.

fecklessness

nounˈfɛkləsnəsˈfɛkləsnəs

Then they call their opponents nasty names, cut dirty deals, and violate constitutional rules all to escape the mess they themselves created by their own weird combination of vanity and fecklessness.
Example sentencesExamples
- And in both cases this angry minority has had far more influence than its numbers would suggest, largely because of the fecklessness of the left and the apathy of moderates.
- He said: ‘The accusations from the finance world are often that a bad debt is a result of fecklessness on the part of the borrower.’
- To the extent that I thought about it at all - and no-one should underestimate the capacity for fecklessness of the 18-year old - I'd more or less accepted that if I got drafted, I'd go along.
- But I'm glad that I can acknowledge my fecklessness now.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Scots and northern English dialect feck (from effeck, variant of effect) + -less.

effect from Late Middle English:
Effect ‘result, consequence’ from Latin effectus, from efficere ‘accomplish, work out’, formed from ex- ‘out, thoroughly’ and facere ‘do’. Its negative is defect (Late Middle English), while deficit (late 18th century) is from Latin deficit ‘it is lacking’, from the verb deficere. The Latin word was used formerly in inventories to record what was missing. Feckless (late 16th century) ‘lacking in efficiency or vitality’ is based on Scots and northern English dialect feck, a shortening of effeck, a variant of effect.

Definition of feckless in US English:

feckless

adjectiveˈfɛkləsˈfekləs

Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.
a feckless mama's boy
an unfortunate example of feckless filmmaking
the feckless exploitation of the world's natural resources
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet still the broadcasting companies swallowed the government line, and there was a sudden demand for a different sort of political programme, one that would engage the feckless viewer - and especially the young feckless viewer.
- But when we actually get on TV, we are relatively feckless and ineffective.
- Some feel the poor are at least partly to blame; to have got themselves into such a state, they must be feckless and corrupt, or at least irresponsible.
- For a younger more feckless child this kind of behaviour might be acceptable, but he was too old to be still in his pyjamas in the street.
- Your feckless neighbour, however, will get the full range of government help.
- Either they are feckless and troublesome, or they are being handed exams on a plate.
- He's not just slobby - he's feckless, almost amoral and as a result Rachel becomes a moral compass for him as much as a lead for the film.
- But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically.
- Maybe their feckless mothers waste money smoking and drinking?
- All it did was make life easier for the lazy and feckless middle-class students, who were one of the products of the 1960s.
- Well, his millionaire dad stipulated in his will that the feckless Josh wasn't to get a penny of his inheritance unless he wrote a bestseller.
- The other villain of course is the absent, feckless father.
- In one of those stupidities that mark a life of bad choices, a quite verbal, witty, but somewhat feckless woman became my business partner.
- When they do eventually arrive here, feckless ministers like to lecture us on how we should conduct our business.
- To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade.
- Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible.
- His feckless mother left him with her family in Denbighshire when he was still an infant, and his uncles paid a couple to care for him until he was six years old.
- Whatever happened to the traditional, feckless student?
- So the older brother became a rather feckless Oxford undergraduate just about to begin his own career.
- Unruly pupils and feckless parents went with the territory.
- There are feckless and irresponsible young fathers out there.
- Secondly, we convinced them that we were a wealthy, feckless country that would not fight.
- Many headteachers will feel that such a role could undermine the need to establish a constructive relationship with parents, however feckless and irresponsible they may be.
- The company's line was that it was putting on a music show and doing everything reasonable, and a bit more, to protect feckless people from themselves.
- Ever year they spew out a healthy amount of guileless, enthusiastic, hard working feckless idiots, ready to be put to work by their seniors.
- Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment.
- At 21, Caroline took up with a feckless playboy 17 years her senior.
- She may be a feckless and incompetent parent, but that is no reason for her not being treated properly.
- Their shared affection for the warmhearted, feckless Martin is a further bond between them.
- Aidan Gillen is completely convincing as Frank, a set designer for television who is trying to negotiate the transition from feckless student existence to adult responsibility, complete with mortgage and steady girlfriend.
- Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government.
- They are like wives midway through marriage therapy designed to reconcile and foster a new beginning with a feckless husband who has perpetually let them down.
- I don't think it's because Glasgow people are particularly feckless.
- Britain's 11 million pensioners punch above their weight because - unlike the feckless young - they still retain the habit of voting, and many of them vote Tory.
- Working in Carnaby Street would exacerbate my ire, because it attracts all sorts of feckless tourists.
- So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars.
- Now, after seven years in reform school, he is adjusting to life on the outside in the company of his feckless father.
Synonyms
useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well

Origin

Late 16th century: from Scots and northern English dialect feck (from effeck, variant of effect)+ -less.

单词	feckless
释义	Definition of feckless in English: feckless adjective ˈfɛkləsˈfɛkləs Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. her feckless younger brother Example sentencesExamples His feckless mother left him with her family in Denbighshire when he was still an infant, and his uncles paid a couple to care for him until he was six years old. Their shared affection for the warmhearted, feckless Martin is a further bond between them. She may be a feckless and incompetent parent, but that is no reason for her not being treated properly. Working in Carnaby Street would exacerbate my ire, because it attracts all sorts of feckless tourists. All it did was make life easier for the lazy and feckless middle-class students, who were one of the products of the 1960s. Maybe their feckless mothers waste money smoking and drinking? Britain's 11 million pensioners punch above their weight because - unlike the feckless young - they still retain the habit of voting, and many of them vote Tory. Ever year they spew out a healthy amount of guileless, enthusiastic, hard working feckless idiots, ready to be put to work by their seniors. Some feel the poor are at least partly to blame; to have got themselves into such a state, they must be feckless and corrupt, or at least irresponsible. They are like wives midway through marriage therapy designed to reconcile and foster a new beginning with a feckless husband who has perpetually let them down. Aidan Gillen is completely convincing as Frank, a set designer for television who is trying to negotiate the transition from feckless student existence to adult responsibility, complete with mortgage and steady girlfriend. Now, after seven years in reform school, he is adjusting to life on the outside in the company of his feckless father. Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible. But when we actually get on TV, we are relatively feckless and ineffective. The other villain of course is the absent, feckless father. Your feckless neighbour, however, will get the full range of government help. Yet still the broadcasting companies swallowed the government line, and there was a sudden demand for a different sort of political programme, one that would engage the feckless viewer - and especially the young feckless viewer. At 21, Caroline took up with a feckless playboy 17 years her senior. When they do eventually arrive here, feckless ministers like to lecture us on how we should conduct our business. Either they are feckless and troublesome, or they are being handed exams on a plate. Unruly pupils and feckless parents went with the territory. Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment. In one of those stupidities that mark a life of bad choices, a quite verbal, witty, but somewhat feckless woman became my business partner. The company's line was that it was putting on a music show and doing everything reasonable, and a bit more, to protect feckless people from themselves. Whatever happened to the traditional, feckless student? But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically. Secondly, we convinced them that we were a wealthy, feckless country that would not fight. So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars. There are feckless and irresponsible young fathers out there. He's not just slobby - he's feckless, almost amoral and as a result Rachel becomes a moral compass for him as much as a lead for the film. So the older brother became a rather feckless Oxford undergraduate just about to begin his own career. For a younger more feckless child this kind of behaviour might be acceptable, but he was too old to be still in his pyjamas in the street. Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government. I don't think it's because Glasgow people are particularly feckless. Many headteachers will feel that such a role could undermine the need to establish a constructive relationship with parents, however feckless and irresponsible they may be. Well, his millionaire dad stipulated in his will that the feckless Josh wasn't to get a penny of his inheritance unless he wrote a bestseller. To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade. Synonyms useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well lazy, idle, slothful, indolent, shiftless, spiritless, apathetic, aimless, unambitious, unenterprising informal no-good, no-account, lousy Derivatives fecklessly adverb Therefore, we need men and women in both parties who understand its gravity and who, whatever they think of the tactics or the domestic agendas of their rivals, will not fecklessly cut and run if they reach the White House. Example sentencesExamples The major common factor with people who make resolutions is that the vast majority break them within hours or days of making them, yet will fecklessly resolve again in similar fashion the same time next year. Jenkins then goes on to discredit younger consumers as fecklessly fickle. fecklessness nounˈfɛkləsnəsˈfɛkləsnəs Then they call their opponents nasty names, cut dirty deals, and violate constitutional rules all to escape the mess they themselves created by their own weird combination of vanity and fecklessness. Example sentencesExamples And in both cases this angry minority has had far more influence than its numbers would suggest, largely because of the fecklessness of the left and the apathy of moderates. He said: ‘The accusations from the finance world are often that a bad debt is a result of fecklessness on the part of the borrower.’ To the extent that I thought about it at all - and no-one should underestimate the capacity for fecklessness of the 18-year old - I'd more or less accepted that if I got drafted, I'd go along. But I'm glad that I can acknowledge my fecklessness now. Origin Late 16th century: from Scots and northern English dialect feck (from effeck, variant of effect) + -less. effect from Late Middle English: Effect ‘result, consequence’ from Latin effectus, from efficere ‘accomplish, work out’, formed from ex- ‘out, thoroughly’ and facere ‘do’. Its negative is defect (Late Middle English), while deficit (late 18th century) is from Latin deficit ‘it is lacking’, from the verb deficere. The Latin word was used formerly in inventories to record what was missing. Feckless (late 16th century) ‘lacking in efficiency or vitality’ is based on Scots and northern English dialect feck, a shortening of effeck, a variant of effect. Definition of feckless in US English: feckless adjectiveˈfɛkləsˈfekləs Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. a feckless mama's boy an unfortunate example of feckless filmmaking the feckless exploitation of the world's natural resources Example sentencesExamples Yet still the broadcasting companies swallowed the government line, and there was a sudden demand for a different sort of political programme, one that would engage the feckless viewer - and especially the young feckless viewer. But when we actually get on TV, we are relatively feckless and ineffective. Some feel the poor are at least partly to blame; to have got themselves into such a state, they must be feckless and corrupt, or at least irresponsible. For a younger more feckless child this kind of behaviour might be acceptable, but he was too old to be still in his pyjamas in the street. Your feckless neighbour, however, will get the full range of government help. Either they are feckless and troublesome, or they are being handed exams on a plate. He's not just slobby - he's feckless, almost amoral and as a result Rachel becomes a moral compass for him as much as a lead for the film. But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically. Maybe their feckless mothers waste money smoking and drinking? All it did was make life easier for the lazy and feckless middle-class students, who were one of the products of the 1960s. Well, his millionaire dad stipulated in his will that the feckless Josh wasn't to get a penny of his inheritance unless he wrote a bestseller. The other villain of course is the absent, feckless father. In one of those stupidities that mark a life of bad choices, a quite verbal, witty, but somewhat feckless woman became my business partner. When they do eventually arrive here, feckless ministers like to lecture us on how we should conduct our business. To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade. Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible. His feckless mother left him with her family in Denbighshire when he was still an infant, and his uncles paid a couple to care for him until he was six years old. Whatever happened to the traditional, feckless student? So the older brother became a rather feckless Oxford undergraduate just about to begin his own career. Unruly pupils and feckless parents went with the territory. There are feckless and irresponsible young fathers out there. Secondly, we convinced them that we were a wealthy, feckless country that would not fight. Many headteachers will feel that such a role could undermine the need to establish a constructive relationship with parents, however feckless and irresponsible they may be. The company's line was that it was putting on a music show and doing everything reasonable, and a bit more, to protect feckless people from themselves. Ever year they spew out a healthy amount of guileless, enthusiastic, hard working feckless idiots, ready to be put to work by their seniors. Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment. At 21, Caroline took up with a feckless playboy 17 years her senior. She may be a feckless and incompetent parent, but that is no reason for her not being treated properly. Their shared affection for the warmhearted, feckless Martin is a further bond between them. Aidan Gillen is completely convincing as Frank, a set designer for television who is trying to negotiate the transition from feckless student existence to adult responsibility, complete with mortgage and steady girlfriend. Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government. They are like wives midway through marriage therapy designed to reconcile and foster a new beginning with a feckless husband who has perpetually let them down. I don't think it's because Glasgow people are particularly feckless. Britain's 11 million pensioners punch above their weight because - unlike the feckless young - they still retain the habit of voting, and many of them vote Tory. Working in Carnaby Street would exacerbate my ire, because it attracts all sorts of feckless tourists. So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars. Now, after seven years in reform school, he is adjusting to life on the outside in the company of his feckless father. Synonyms useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well Origin Late 16th century: from Scots and northern English dialect feck (from effeck, variant of effect)+ -less.
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