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inefficacious

inefficacious adjective: incapable of having the intended consequence.

Adjective

inefficacious (comparative more inefficacious, superlative most inefficacious)

  1. Incapable of having the intended consequence.
  2. Not effective.

inefficacious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

inefficacious in Tamil

எதிர்பார்த்த பலனளிக்காத, திறனற்ற

inefficacious in Urdu

بےاثر, بےسود, غیرمفید, کچا

inefficacious in Bengali

অভিপ্রেত ফলাফল লাভে অক্ষম, কার্যকর নয়

inefficacious in Malayalam

ineffective, fruitless, unproduct-ive
ഫലപ്രദമല്ലാത്ത, ഫലശൂന്യമായ, ഉദ്ദേശിച്ച ഫലം ചെയ്യാത്ത, നിഷ്പ്രയോജക, നിഷ്പ്രയോജന, പ്രയോജനമില്ലാത്ത

Synonyms of inefficacious

Forms of inefficacious

comparativemore inefficacious
superlativemost inefficacious

Origin of inefficacious

From in- + efficacious.

Words formed from inefficacious

Words that rhyme with inefficacious

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about inefficacious

What does inefficacious mean?
Inefficacious means incapable of having the intended consequence.
What is inefficacious in Tamil?
Inefficacious in Tamil is எதிர்பார்த்த பலனளிக்காத, திறனற்ற. See Inefficacious meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inefficacious?
Inefficacious is an adjective.

Words near inefficacious in the dictionary

  1. ineffervescence
  2. ineffervescent
  3. ineffervescibility
  4. ineffervescible
  5. inefficacies
  6. inefficacious
  7. inefficaciously
  8. inefficaciousness
  9. inefficacity
  10. inefficacy
  11. inefficience

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inefficacious (page history and authors); inefficacious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inefficacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inefficacious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inefficacious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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