Usually means: Not producing desired or intended results.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word Ineffective:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ineffective: Merriam-Webster
  2. ineffective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ineffective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ineffective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ineffective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ineffective, ineffective: Wordnik
  7. ineffective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ineffective: Wiktionary
  9. ineffective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ineffective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ineffective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ineffective, ineffective: Dictionary.com
  13. ineffective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ineffective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ineffective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ineffective: Rhymezone
  17. ineffective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ineffective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ineffective: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ineffective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ineffective: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. ineffective: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ineffective: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ineffective)

▸ adjective:  Not having the desired effect; ineffectual; otiose.
▸ adjective:  Lacking in ability; incompetent or inadequate.

Similar:
unproductive, inefficient, uneffective, ineffectual, incompetent, unable, impotent, toothless, uneffectual, ineffectuall, more...

Opposite:
effective, efficient, productive, capable, potent

Types:
placebo, sham, placebo effect, sham effect, placebo response, sham response, more...

Phrases:
ineffective erythropoiesis, Ineffective assistance of counsel, medicine that is harmful and ineffective, make ineffective or powerless, render ineffective, more...

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    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     pale yellow,     off-white, more...



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Similar:
unproductive, inefficient, uneffective, ineffectual, incompetent, unable, impotent, toothless, uneffectual, ineffectuall, more...

Opposite:
effective, efficient, productive, capable, potent

Types:
placebo, sham, placebo effect, sham effect, placebo response, sham response, more...

Phrases:
ineffective erythropoiesis, Ineffective assistance of counsel, medicine that is harmful and ineffective, make ineffective or powerless, render ineffective, idle and ineffective, make ineffective, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     pale yellow,     off-white, more...



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