adj
Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. .
n
(idiomatic) All talk and no results.
adj
Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
v
(rare, literary, transitive, intransitive) To approach; to near.
n
Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
adj
(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
adj
Having failed at an early stage, never reaching fruition.
adj
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
adj
Disappointing in performance or progress.
adj
(obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
adj
(US, Navy, slang) Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications.
n
Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
adj
(obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.
n
(obsolete) Incongruity; unsuitableness.
n
Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.
adj
(obsolete) Rendered uninhabited.
adj
Lacking skills for organizing one's affairs.
n
Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness.
n
That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role
n
uselessness, a lack of utility
adj
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
n
(medicine) A lack of competence
adj
Exhibiting dyscompetence
adj
Having no effect or advantage.
adj
(obsolete) Unrestrained.
n
(derogatory) A person in a position of authority who is ineffective or incompetent.
n
A course of action doomed to be futile.
adj
Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
adj
(archaic) Unlucky, unfortunate.
adj
ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
n
a person devoted to profitless pursuits
adj
(idiomatic) useless; worthless
adj
Lacking help; powerless.
adj
Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
adj
Mentally unprepared for a situation or task.
adj
Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.
n
an inefficient part or factor.
n
Alternative form of improficiency [Lack of proficiency.]
n
Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.
n
A lack of competence or ability.
n
(dated) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
n
The lack of a capacity; an inability.
n
(archaic) inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage
n
Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
n
The condition of being incompetent.
adj
Unskilled; lacking the degree of ability that would normally be expected.
adj
(obsolete) Outside of one's competence
adj
(obsolete) Not deficient; full.
adj
lacking in ability; incompetent or inadequate
adj
Obsolete form of ineffectual. [Unable or insufficient to produce effect.]
v
To make ineffectual; to disable.
n
(nonstandard) Synonym of inefficiency
n
Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
adj
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing
adj
Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
n
(countable, derogatory) A government characterized by incompetent leaders.
adj
Inept or unskilled; not of expert ability or quality.
adj
Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
adj
That lacks the number sufficient to form a quorum.
n
(archaic) Lack of success.
v
(Britain, transitive) To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.
adj
(obsolete) Without employment; idle.
adj
Unsuccessful, in a failing manner.
adj
Badly adjusted to the demands and stresses of daily living; unable to cope.
n
Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent.
n
Alternative form of maleficence [harmfulness or mischief]
adj
(postpositive) Unfulfilled due to the vagary of circumstance, some inherent flaw or a constitutional lack.
n
Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved.
n
A man who fails to achieve the success or status that he might potentially have had.
adj
worthless or of no merit
adj
Bound to end in failure.
n
Someone who does not progress or move forward; someone who lacks motivation.
n
(medicine) The failure to administer a drug
n
(often attributive) Lack of appraisal.
n
A member of the military who is unable to assume active duty.
n
A song, etc. that fails to become a hit.
n
Quality or state of not being satisfied.
adj
(US, idiomatic) worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation.
adj
(idiomatic) Worthless or pointless.
adj
(idiomatic) Worthless.
adj
(law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
adj
(biology) Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.
n
The property of being omniabsent.
n
Refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.
adv
Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
adj
Having insufficient weapons.
adj
Having less skill than another.
adv
With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Without comfort, unconsoled.
adj
(euphemistic) Unemployed; out of work.
adj
(obsolete) barren; unprofitable
adj
Having less than a quorum.
adj
Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
n
(derogatory, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
adj
rare spelling of skilless [Without skill; unskilled, inept.]
n
Lack of skill; ineptness.
adj
Uncommon spelling of skilless. [Without skill; unskilled, inept.]
n
A lack of specialized workforce.
n
Alternative form of status zer0 [(UK, dated, of youth) A status of having no employment and not in any educational or training programme.]
n
One who has less proficiency than an expert.
n
(law, Scotland) Failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies that it is being given up.
adj
Having no talent or natural ability.
adj
Being a waste of time; fruitless, unproductive.
adv
(idiomatic) With little success or benefit.
n
Lack of ability; inability.
adj
Not accomplished; having few skills or achievements.
n
(obsolete) Lack of accomplishment; the state of being unaccomplished.
n
Someone who is not an adept.
adj
having little ambition for success or achievement
n
Insufficient acceptance.
adj
Having too little ambition.
n
Attendance too infrequently, or by too few.
adj
Given too little attention.
n
Partial compliance, short of what is necessary.
adj
having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication
adj
Insufficiently educated.
adj
Having had insufficient experience.
adj
Not sufficiently motivated.
n
State or condition of being underprepared.
adj
Lacking the suitable qualifications for a particular job.
adj
Not having adequate training.
adj
Synonym of ineffective
n
An individual who is not suited to employment.
adj
(archaic) Not expensive; inexpensive.
n
The characteristic of being unfit or out of physical shape.
v
(UK) Alternative spelling of unfulfill [(transitive, US) to not fulfill; stop short of fulfillment or completion]
adj
Awkward; not convenient.
adj
lacking the ability to impress, inability to produce an impression.
n
The quality of being unmeet.
adj
Not muscular; weak, puny, wimpy.
n
A black mark given to a pupil who arrives at a lesson without the necessary items or preparation.
adj
(obsolete) Deprived of the usual faculties.
n
The quality or state of being unregenerate.
adj
(of research etc) Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding.
adj
Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
n
The state or quality of being unsociable.
adj
(Scotland) Not fortunate.
adj
Not whole, not solid, defective.
adj
(obsolete) Barren; infertile.
adj
(archaic) Not valid; invalid.
n
(uncountable) Lack of value; valuelessness; worthlessness
adj
Inexperienced, untrained.
n
The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
n
Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
adj
(colloquial, of a person) Unable to do well at a particular task or thing. Useless is mildly insulting.
adj
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
adj
Unfortunate; disappointing.
adj
Unfulfilled; frustrated in realizing a goal, ambition, etc.
n
(Singapore, usually military) A person who is unable to perform a single pull-up or chin-up.
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