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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inefficacious \In*ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [Pref. in- not + efficacious: cf F. inefficace, L. inefficax.] Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent. --Boyle. The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . to restrain the growth of disorders. --Burke. Note: Ineffectual, says Johnson, rather denotes an actual failure, and inefficacious and habitual impotence to any effect. But the distinction is not always observed, nor can it be for we can not always know whether means are inefficacious till experiment has proved them ineffectual. Inefficacious is therefore sometimes synonymous with ineffectual. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inefficacious adj : lacking the power to produce a desired effect; "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime" [ant: {efficacious}]
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