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Definition of Inefficacious
1. Adjective. Lacking the power to produce a desired effect. "Laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime"
Also: Ineffective, Ineffectual, Uneffective
Antonyms: Efficacious
Derivative terms: Inefficaciousness
Definition of Inefficacious
1. a. Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent.
Definition of Inefficacious
1. Adjective. Incapable of having the intended consequence. ¹
2. Adjective. Not effective. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inefficacious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inefficacious
Literary usage of Inefficacious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1907)
"As to the other set of cases, in which punishment would be inefficacious ; neither
do these depend upon the nature of the act, that is, of the sort of act: ..."
2. A Selection of Cases Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Felix Frankfurter (1915)
"sions of the statute would be wholly inefficacious, as names would readily be
devised to accomplish such a purpose. It follows from what we have said that ..."
3. Memorials of the Civil War: Comprising the Correspondence of the Fairfax by Robert Bell (1849)
"His articles were thrown out by the Peers ; and after a few years of impatient
and inefficacious display in Parliament, he went out of town, ..."
4. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-east of Siberia, the Frozen by Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev (1806)
"... that it might be consumed; but this was Anally inefficacious in its influence
on the superstitious multitude. ..."
5. Law of Mandamus by Samuel Slaughter Merrill (1892)
"... required or would have been inefficacious.— A writ of mandamus will not run
to a court acting under a special commission, which has expired by its own ..."
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