| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessive |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, audacious, bizarre, blunt, candid, dissolute, exaggerated, extravagant, flamboyant, frank, free, immoderate, immoral, impertinent, impotent, incontinent, indiscriminate, inordinate, intemperate, lawless, licentious, limitless, loose, open, plenary, profligate, rampant, riotous, saturnalian, spontaneous, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, ungoverned, unhampered, uninhibited, unlimited, unrestricted, wanton, wild |
| Antonyms: | restrained, restricted |
| Main Entry: | weak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient, feeble |
| Synonyms: | faulty, flabby, flimsy, forceless, green*, handicapped, hollow, immature, implausible, impotent, improbable, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, inconceivable, inconclusive, incredible, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, invalid, lacking, lame, limited, pathetic, poor, raw, shaky, shallow, slight, slim, small, spineless, substandard, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unprepared, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, unsure, untrained, wanting |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, fit, sufficient |
| Main Entry: | castrated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emasculated |
| Synonyms: | altered, desexed, effeminate, emasculate, fixed, impotent, unmanned |
| Main Entry: | ineffective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useless |
| Synonyms: | abortive, anticlimactic, barren, bootless, defeasible, emasculate, feckless, feeble, forceless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, lame, limited, neutralized, no go, no way, not effective, nugatory, null, paltry, powerless, slack-spined, spineless, unable, unavailable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, vain, void, withered, worthless |
| Notes: | ineffectual refers to a general or habitual lack of success in the carrying out of one's projects; ineffective refers to a specific or definite failure to perform a task or accomplish a purpose |
| Antonyms: | effective |
| Main Entry: | ungovernable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | disobedient, disorderly, fractious, impetuous, impotent, intractable, irrepressible, mutinous, rampant, refractory, unbridled, uncontrollable, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wild |
| Antonyms: | orderly |
| Main Entry: | ineffectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useless |
| Synonyms: | futile, hopeless, idle, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, inefficient, insufficient, unable, unavailing, unproductive, vain, weak |
| Notes: | ineffectual refers to a general or habitual lack of success in the carrying out of one's projects; ineffective refers to a specific or definite failure to perform a task or accomplish a purpose |
| Antonyms: | effective, effectual |
| Main Entry: | unfruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren |
| Synonyms: | fruitless, impotent, infertile, nonproductive, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Antonyms: | fruitful, potent, productive, prolific |
| Main Entry: | unfruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not fruitful |
| Synonyms: | acarpous, arid, barren, effete, fruitless, impotent, infecund, infertile, sterile, unproductive, unprolific, unrewarding, useless, wasted |
| Antonyms: | fruitful |
| Main Entry: | inefficacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ineffectual |
| Synonyms: | abortive, anticlimactic, barren, bootless, defeasible, feckless, feeble, forceless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffective, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, invertebrate, lame, limited, neutralized, nugatory, null, null and void, paltry, powerless, spineless, unable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, useless, vain, void, withered, worthless |