1. ineffectual - Adjective
2. ineffectual - Adjective Satellite
Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. Frank Herbert
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day. Emil Cioran
To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell. Michael Frayn
A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Matthew Arnold
Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. John Noble
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. Philip K. Dick