inefficacious
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inefficaciously adverb
- inefficaciousness noun
- inefficacity noun
- inefficacy noun
Etymology
Origin of inefficacious
First recorded in 1650–60; in- 3 + efficacious
Example Sentences
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Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Failing in its usual effect, the medicine was no longer continued; but every thing that was tried proved equally inefficacious, and he did not long survive.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
It is, at least, quite certain that other means will prove inefficacious, if this be not superadded.
From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.
He commenced the sentence with a dignity, and ended it with a familiarity equally inefficacious.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
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