Inefficacious: alternatives and connections

declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"

An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a p…

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desir…

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim…

declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"

A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an obj…

To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual po…

Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an ef…

capacity or power to produce a desired effect; "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine"

Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.

Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, s…

declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"

Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile an…

The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability…

In an impotent manner.