About The Word Inefficacious
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Inefficacious
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What's The Definition Of Inefficacious?
[adj] lacking the power to produce a desired effect; "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Inefficacious: Related Terms | Find terms related to Inefficacious: See Also | ineffective | ineffectual | uneffective Inefficacious In Webster's Dictionary \In*ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [Pref. in- not +
efficacious: cf. F. inefficace, L. inefficax.]
Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect
desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent.
--Boyle.
The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious .
. . to restrain the growth of disorders. --Burke.
Note: Ineffectual, says Johnson, rather denotes an actual
failure, and inefficacious and habitual impotence to
any effect. But the distinction is not always observed,
nor can it be; for we can not always know whether means
are inefficacious till experiment has proved them
ineffectual. Inefficacious is therefore sometimes
synonymous with ineffectual.
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