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Significados de ineffectual em inglês

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Not producing an intended effect.

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      Producing no result or effect.

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            Examples for "futile"
            1
            Therefore, hoping it will happen in the future is futile, he said.
            Reuters
            2
            But ultimately all three Irish teams' defiance against French opposition proved futile.
            The Irish Times
            3
            I once treated a young father who decided to stop futile chemotherapy.
            The Guardian
            4
            Employers branded today's action futile and insisted no more money is available.
            The Irish Times
            5
            I often think that my mission was futile from the very start.
            And the rat laughed
            1
            Real violence was unavailing where the opponents were in a large majority.
            Lectures on Modern history
            2
            His search was unavailing; the mysterious reptile was not to be found.
            Brood of the Witch-Queen
            3
            What a contrast to the honest if unavailing efforts of the team.
            The Irish Times
            4
            They actually walked over the log in their unavailing search for him.
            David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
            5
            Hurstwood heard the details of the weary and unavailing search that evening.
            Sister Carrie: A Novel
            1
            There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
            Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
            2
            Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
            Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
            3
            Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
            Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
            4
            There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
            Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
            5
            We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
            Phases of Faith; Or, Passages from the History of My Creed

            Lacking in power or forcefulness.

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                  Uso de ineffectual em inglês
                  1
                  Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual.
                  Reuters
                  2
                  After an ineffectual resistance he fell in the commencement of the action.
                  The History of the Thirty Years' War
                  3
                  I said something ineffectual, to salve my conscience, and we carried on.'
                  The coldest blood
                  4
                  Why has the southern African regional body been, in comparison, so ineffectual?
                  The South African
                  5
                  Syrinx gave him an ineffectual grimace of sympathy, unsure what to say.
                  The Reality Dysfunction
                  6
                  An explosion or insanity comes if their wills smoulder in ineffectual silence.
                  Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
                  7
                  The stars came out, shedding their ineffectual glimmerings on the light-widowed earth.
                  The Last Man
                  8
                  The Nemesis of this self-centred spirit is that of being totally ineffectual.
                  Heretics
                  9
                  There were two ineffectual thuds against the door and then a crash.
                  The Short Line War
                  10
                  But the nearest and readiest way is taken to make them ineffectual.
                  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
                  11
                  She lifted her hands to her head in a dazed, ineffectual way.
                  A Mountain Europa
                  12
                  All day they made ineffectual attempts to extricate themselves from the mountains.
                  Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
                  13
                  She lost her way in them, fluttering ineffectual, gently hurried and bird-like.
                  Deadham Hard: A Romance
                  14
                  A League, after all, seems ineffectual; she would break up any League.
                  Certain Personal Matters
                  15
                  Both had their mouths open and were flapping about like ineffectual fish.
                  Soulless
                  16
                  Nor is it for densely foggy weather, for here it is ineffectual.
                  Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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                  vãoinútil
                  Ineffectual ao longo do tempo
                  Ineffectual nas variantes da língua
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