ineffectualadjective
uk/ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.əl/us/ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.əl/formalnot skilled at achieving, or not able to produce, good results:
an ineffectual leader
The teachers were ineffectual at maintaining discipline.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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ineffectually
adverb uk/ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.ə.li/us/ˌɪn.ɪˈfek.tʃu.ə.li/