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ineffectually

/in-i-fek-choo-uhl/US // ˌɪn ɪˈfɛk tʃu əl //UK // (ˌɪnɪˈfɛktʃʊəl) //

无效地,无效,无效的,毫无效果

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
    • : unavailing; futile: His efforts to sell the house were ineffectual.
    • : powerless; impotent.

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Examples

  • “The reasons for the delay were varied and complex and included fierce competition over finite resources, bitter interpersonal rivalries, and ineffectual scientific management,” the 2019 study in Physics Today noted.

  • When Superman and Batman doffed their costumes to become Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, they revealed personae as ineffectual as Don Diego, the ennui-ridden, apolitical dandy who delights in playing parlor tricks with his handkerchief.

  • This model is meaningfully distinct from the constituency statutes in some states that seek to strengthen stakeholder interests, but that stakeholder advocates condemn as ineffectual.

  • The Obama administration has pulled together a coalition as ineffectual as it is unwilling.

  • The end result only confirmed its image as disorganized and ineffectual.

  • Why, then, are we led to believe that her conniving ways are so ineffectual and misdirected?

  • On Thrones, power, politics, money, and force constantly trump goodness, in each of its ineffectual forms.

  • But the White House is sounding more and more defensive and ineffectual.

  • Who can understand its nature, its operations, the sufficiency which is not sufficient, and the efficacy which is ineffectual.

  • We had heard the roar of her guns, and the quick, ineffectual firing from Fort McAllister.

  • Gaolers and soldiers, utterly taken aback by this sudden onslaught, made but ineffectual resistance.

  • In some places an ineffectual resistance was made, and several lives lost on both sides.

  • A rift in the opposition was started, and an attempt to close it by a conference two days later was ineffectual.