INEFFECTUAL

adj. 1 unsuccessful, unavailing, futile, bootless, sterile, barren, fruitless, unproductive, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative Our efforts to deal with pollution have been largely ineffectual 2 weak, feeble, effete, impotent, tame, lame, powerless, inefficient, incompetent, inadequate We tried to read the inscription by the ineffectual light of a match