Feckless \Feck"less\, a. [Perh. a corruption of effectless.]
Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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