inefficacious


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in·ef·fi·ca·cious

 (ĭn-ĕf′ĭ-kā′shəs)
adj.
Not capable of producing a desired effect or result; ineffective.

in·ef′fi·ca′cious·ly adv.
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inefficacious

(ˌɪnɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs)
adj
failing to produce the desired effect
ˌineffiˈcaciously adv
inefficacy, ˌineffiˈcaciousness, inefficacity n
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.inefficacious - lacking the power to produce a desired effect; "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime"
ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective - not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation"
efficacious - marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough"
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inefficacious

adjective
Not having the desired effect:
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Translations

inefficacious

[ˌɪnefɪˈkeɪʃəs] ADJ (frm) → ineficaz
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inefficacious

adjunwirksam, wirkungslos, ohne Wirkung; policyerfolglos, fruchtlos
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References in classic literature ?
The raw bacon which clumsy Molly spares from her own scanty store that she may carry it to her neighbour's child to "stop the fits," may be a piteously inefficacious remedy; but the generous stirring of neighbourly kindness that prompted the deed has a beneficent radiation that is not lost.
The precaution, however, is quite inefficacious, for the Indians never fail to procure liquor of a worse kind, at a dearer price, from travelling pedlars.
It is my belief, however, that had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious. I might, for instance, have contented myself with writing out the narratives of a veteran shipmaster, one of the Inspectors, whom I should be most ungrateful not to mention, since scarcely a day passed that he did not stir me to laughter and admiration by his marvel loins gifts as a story-teller.
Tran, Nguyen and Nguyen (2017) found that in closed or authoritarian regimes, e-government does not synchronize with e-democracy, causing "discretionary transparency" and "inefficacious transparency".
"This case should have been resolved without my personal intervention which indicates an institutional failure." Accepting that Pakistan has struggled on different institutional issues, the chief justice commented that the failure of successive government has rendered the judicial and institutional framework of the country inefficacious.
Where were they when student leaders were made powerless and inefficacious by the school authorities?
The Labour leadership, however, should have been smart enough to grasp immediately that it was necessary for all the examples accompanying the definition of antisemitism by the Holocaust Alliance to be adopted because the definition without the examples was bland and inefficacious.
The Commission - hardly a disinterested party - found the argument inefficacious, as did the D.C.
Obstacles which by their very nature will make it appear that the scholastic and scientific approach to the problems of life is futile, barren and inefficacious. Indeed there will be many knowledgeable and well-meaning people who will tell you that you cannot bring the theoretical and - as they say - impractical approach of scholarship to bear on the practical events of everyday life relating to business, politics, domestic affairs, etc.
Beta-lactam antibiotics including penicillin and cephalosporin, glycopeptides including vancomycin and teicoplanin and phosphomycin are the antibiotics inefficacious against this bacterium.
If the intravenous combination of amiodarone and beta-blockers proves inefficacious, the addition of lidocaine is a reasonable option.1,2 For what concerns the prevention of ES, interesting results have been yielded by some drugs such as azimilide, a class III antiarrhythmic.
EFL notes that, in countries like Bangladesh, masses have resorted to polythene with the decline of raids and fines, which has made the 2002 ban on polythene inefficacious. Thus, consistency in enforcement is at the crux of affixing all pieces of the puzzle together.