Synonym: futile, ineffective, powerless, unsuccessful, useless. Similar words: in effect, effect, effected, effective, side effect, take effect, effectively, ripple effect. Meaning: [‚ɪnɪ'fektʃʊəl] 
adj. 1. not producing an intended effect 2. producing no result or effect 3. lacking in power or forcefulness.
adj. 1. not producing an intended effect 2. producing no result or effect 3. lacking in power or forcefulness. 
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1, He is a well-meaning but ineffectual leader.
2, The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
3, Several of the teachers were ineffectual at maintaining discipline.
4, Teachers often view youth workers as undisciplined and ineffectual.
5, She remembered her ineffectual efforts to comfort him.
6, Middle-class pressure for liberal reforms was ineffectual.
7, Constant activity can easily become an ineffectual nervous twitch.
8, The police were completely ineffectual in this matter.
9, Abortifacient pills, usually ineffectual, were widely advertised in newspapers.
10, Legislatures are ineffectual, and real power is concentrated in the executive branch of government.
11, Like individuals, organizations fall into bad habits and ineffectual behaviors more or less by chance.
12, The problems were made worse by the ineffectual political leadership of the coalition.
13, When economic and social progress is hindered by ineffectual and corrupt government, the global polity suffers.
14, Far worse than an ineffectual president would be an ideologically motivated hatchet man.
15, He won't be able to deal with the situation;he's too ineffectual.
16, In his view, the Commission remains a toothless and ineffectual body.
17, Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
18, Once more, here, certain trade union members have been disappointed with the Commissioner's ineffectual response to their complaints.
19, His first, Kristine Gebbie, resigned after being criticized by AIDS activists for being ineffectual.
20, There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual.
21, They weld together mineral grains of radically different compositions and properties, rendering most techniques of mineral separation and enrichment ineffectual.
22, A peerless champion of his own era, he had been reduced to an ineffectual has-been by the modern gunslingers.
23, All of their attempts to come to an agreement has been ineffectual.
24, Self-defeating organizations are nothing if not adroit at minimizing the costs of their destructive or ineffectual actions.
25, Soviet capabilities for the long range projection of power in the Third World were comparatively ineffectual.
26, The current awareness that the modern nation-state has become severely strained, or even ineffectual,(http://sentencedict.com/ineffectual.html) has evoked a range of responses.
27, The educational systems and cultural climates in every country are so diverse that international planning would be unwise and ineffectual.
28, Experience on statutory advisory committees to the health board has shown me how slow and often ineffectual they are.
29, And they are surprised to learn that boys who lack assertiveness often express their pent-up anger by being ineffectual.
30, The breach between them grew by itself, a result of misunderstandings, inadequate concessions and ineffectual violence.
More similar words: in effect, effect, effected, effective, side effect, take effect, effectively, ripple effect, intellectual, effectiveness, intellectually, coriolis effect, greenhouse effect, the greenhouse effect, actual, actually, punctual, ineffable, affect, inefficient, affected, ineffaceable, inefficiency, affection, disaffected, affectation, affectionate, effete, punctuate, sanctuary.