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
In writing novels we novelists preach to you from our pulpits, and are keenly anxious that our sermons shall not be inefficacious.
From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony
My counsels and remonstrances were not wholly inefficacious.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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.
From The Scarlet Letter by Foote, Mary Hallock
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