without effect

Synonyms

wantonly ineffectually

Examples

A life without a cause is a life without effect. Paulo Coelho

However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences. Toni Morrison

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. Thomas Hobbes

Words in the phrase

without effect

Close letter words and terms

without due consideration without dust without ears without egress without eloquence without employment