inefficacious
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of inefficacious
First recorded in 1650–60; in- 3 + efficacious
Example Sentences
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Most nostrums hit at only one of the causes and so are frequently inefficacious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally 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 William Withering
The special field of private ethics is among the cases where punishment is "unprofitable" or "inefficacious," notably those which are the concern of prudence.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
It was inefficacious, however, when one of these was involved in sin.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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