Feckless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feckless \Feck"less\, a. [Perh. a corruption of effectless.]
     Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  feckless
       adj 1: not fit to assume responsibility
       2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to
          repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
          [syn: {inept}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "feckless":
     aimless, barren, bootless, carefree, careless, counterproductive,
     easygoing, effete, empty, etiolated, fatuitous, fatuous, fruitless,
     fustian, futile, good-for-nothing, grasshopper, happy-go-lucky,
     heedless, impotent, improvident, inadequate, inadvertent, inane,
     incautious, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inoperative,
     invalid, irresponsible, lackadaisical, meaningless, negligent,
     no go, nonchalant, nugacious, nugatory, of no force, of no use,
     pointless, purposeless, reckless, remiss, shiftless, sterile,
     superfluous, thoughtless, thriftless, unavailing, uncaring,
     undependable, uneconomical, unheeding, unproviding, unpurposed,
     unreflective, unreliable, unthinking, unthrifty, untrustworthy,
     useless, vain, wild, worthless, wrecking