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Feckless

//ˈfɛkləs// adj

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Adjective
  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.

    "“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 plane loaded with, like, twice as much cocaine.” “Is this the part where you tell me to look under my seat?”"

  3. 3
    Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
  4. 4
    Lacking vitality. British, archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    generally incompetent and ineffectual wordnet
  2. 2
    not fit to assume responsibility wordnet

Etymology

From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.

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