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- pronunciation:
- In
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
not producing an intended effect.
Their attempt to bail out the water from the leaky boat was ineffectual.- antonyms:
- effectual
- similar words:
- abortive, fruitless, useless, vain
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| definition 2: |
incapable of acting effectively.
The ineffectual parents had no control over their badly-behaved children.- antonyms:
- effectual, strong
- similar words:
- fruitless, weak
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| related words: |
effete, void, wan, weak |
adverb + (adj.)ineffectual
completely, either, largely, mostly, often, politically, somewhat, ultimately, utterly
(adj.)ineffectual
+ adverb
totally
(adj.)ineffectual
+ noun
attempt, authority, bully, effort, gesture, institution, leader, management, method, talk, weapon
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| derivations: |
ineffectually (adv.), ineffectuality (n.), ineffectualness (n.) |
The word ineffectual
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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