Ineffective Definition

ĭnĭ-fĕktĭv
adjective
Not effective; not producing the desired effect; ineffectual.
An ineffective plan.
Webster's New World
Not capable of performing satisfactorily; incompetent; inefficient.
An ineffective mayor.
Webster's New World
The definition of ineffective is something or someone that does not succeed at accomplishing or moving towards a goal.
When you make an effort to clean up but you do not end up actually cleaning anything at all, this is an example of an effort that would be described as ineffective.
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Ineffective Sentence Examples

  • This half measure was as ineffective as was to have been expected.

  • Ismail's efforts to put an end to the slave trade, if sincere, were ineffective, and, moreover, south of Kordofan the authority of the government did not extend beyond the posts occupied by their troops.

  • Her mind control magic slid around him, ineffective this night.

  • The plan of an international fleet to coerce the Mahommedan is even to this day ineffective; but the Hospitallers, who acquired a new basis by the conquest of Rhodes in 1310, used their fleet to enforce a partial and, on the whole, ineffective blockade of the coast of the Levant.

  • The syllogism is ineffective, belonging to argumentation, and constraining assent where what we want is control of things.

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IININE

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