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- pronunciation:
- fe
klihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
weak or incompetent; ineffective.
His feckless efforts at appeasing her only served to anger her more.- antonyms:
- effective, efficient
- similar words:
- feeble
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| definition 2: |
worthless or irresponsible.
That silly girl has gotten herself involved with some feckless youth.- antonyms:
- responsible
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adverb + (adj.)feckless
first, less, perhaps, somewhat, sort, utterly
(adj.)feckless
+ noun
administration, attempt, boy, budget, campaign, corporation, cracker, daughter, effort, leadership, love, lover, mother, performance, playboy, policy, response, self-indulgence, son, writer
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| derivations: |
fecklessly (adv.), fecklessness (n.) |
The word feckless
contains the following part:
-less
Middle English
adjective-forming suffix
that means without
  More about this word part:
The suffix -less
attaches primarily to monosyllabic English nouns. However, -less
is a fully productive suffix, meaning it can be added to any noun to form legitimate new words.
Example words:
aimless, airless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, boneless, bodiless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, careless, cheerless, colorless, cordless, countless, dauntless, doubtless, endless, fatherless, fearless, feckless, flawless, formless, graceless, groundless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, jobless, joyless, listless, matchless, merciless, mindless, motionless, nameless, painless, peerless, penniless, pitiless, pointless, powerless, priceless, regardless, relentless, restless, selfless, sightless, soundless1, spotless, stainless, strapless, sunless, tasteless, thoughtless, tireless, useless, wireless, weightless, worthless
- synonyms:
- a-1, an-1
- antonyms:
- -ful1
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