GDict

feckless

'feklis5 senses · 233 ms
Level C2GRE
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adj/ˈfɛkləs//ˈfɛklɪs/
  1. 1

    Lacking purpose.

    • It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman.
  2. 2

    Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.

    • This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issui
    • “Lana, when I want you to talk, I will tell you. And until then, zip it.” “Wha-- what did I do?” “Nothing.” “Yeah, Lana.” “Which is why these feckless idiots lost 200 kilos of cocaine.” “Yeah, Lan-- oh. OK. Technically. But then we stole a
  3. 3

    Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.

    • China is “proving to be a feckless friend for its authoritarian allies,” Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China under President Joe Biden, wrote on X.
  4. 4

    Lacking vitality.UKarchaic

ant. effective · efficient · meaningful · useful · purposeful · careful · responsible

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