Ineffective
adjective
Not producing the intended results or outcome.
The medicine was ineffective in treating her condition.
Often appears as...
- ineffective treatment
- ineffective strategy
adjective
Not having the skills or abilities to do a job properly.
The manager was ineffective in leading the team.
Often appears as...
- ineffective leader
- ineffective management
adjective
Not producing the intended results or outcome.
The medicine was ineffective in treating her condition.
Often appears as...
- ineffective treatment
- ineffective strategy
adjective
Not having the skills or abilities to do a job properly.
The manager was ineffective in leading the team.
Often appears as...
- ineffective leader
- ineffective management
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Outcome Expectation
Use 'ineffective' when an action doesn't lead to the desired result, regardless of effort made.
Despite studying hard, his methods were ineffective for the final exam.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Ineffective' often implies disappointment or failure to meet expectations.
Her speech was ineffective, leaving the audience unimpressed.
Pro Tip 3/3Alternative Solutions
Use 'ineffective' to suggest that a different method may be needed.
The advertising campaign was ineffective, so we need a new approach.
Pro Tip 1/3Outcome Expectation
Use 'ineffective' when an action doesn't lead to the desired result, regardless of effort made.
Despite studying hard, his methods were ineffective for the final exam.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Ineffective' often implies disappointment or failure to meet expectations.
Her speech was ineffective, leaving the audience unimpressed.
Pro Tip 3/3Alternative Solutions
Use 'ineffective' to suggest that a different method may be needed.
The advertising campaign was ineffective, so we need a new approach.
Pro Tip 1/3Outcome Expectation
Use 'ineffective' when an action doesn't lead to the desired result, regardless of effort made.
Despite studying hard, his methods were ineffective for the final exam.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Implication
'Ineffective' often implies disappointment or failure to meet expectations.
Her speech was ineffective, leaving the audience unimpressed.
Pro Tip 3/3Alternative Solutions
Use 'ineffective' to suggest that a different method may be needed.
The advertising campaign was ineffective, so we need a new approach.
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How to start a movement...
and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow.
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Nationalism vs....
This makes the political system ineffective, because it has no control over the forces that shape our life. And you have basically two solutions to this either de-globalize the economy and turn it back into a national economy, or globalize the political system.
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The language of lying —...
But it's still worthwhile to be aware of telltale clues, like minimal self-references, negative language, simple explanations and convoluted phrasing. It just might help you avoid an overvalued stock, an ineffective product, or even a terrible relationship.
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Economics of climate...
why we need to say the following we need to stop applauding our politicians for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead what we do need to do is to spend and encourage them to dramatically ramp up
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Turbulence: One of the...
but it’s ineffective in many situations. For example, the motion of the atmosphere is significantly influenced by factors including gravity and the earth’s rotation. Or take relatively simple things like the drag on buildings and cars.
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Mosquitos, malaria and...
but eventually those tools will become ineffective, and the death rate will soar back up again. And the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't pay attention. Now we're on the upswing. Bed net funding is up.
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What it takes to be a...
and also frustrated by those stories, that I left my job so that I could study this full time, and I took a year to travel to different parts of the world to learn about effective and ineffective leadership practices in companies,
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How Solving this Medical...
medicine had paid ineffective for voted the entirety of human history and how they were going down the right path so curative medicine came of age loyalty because doctors knew what actually causes disease
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Mosquitos, malaria and...
you'll reduce the disease burden but eventually those tools will become ineffective and the death rate will soar back up again and the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't
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Let's talk about sex -...
guess completely ineffective. We love big solutions to big problems, don't we? What if the facts of life don't work that way? What if the experience of having that conversation can't be mass-produced?
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How to start a movement...
and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow.
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
This makes the political system ineffective, because it has no control over the forces that shape our life. And you have basically two solutions to this either de-globalize the economy and turn it back into a national economy, or globalize the political system.
Video examples
The language of lying —...
But it's still worthwhile to be aware of telltale clues, like minimal self-references, negative language, simple explanations and convoluted phrasing. It just might help you avoid an overvalued stock, an ineffective product, or even a terrible relationship.
Video examples
Economics of climate...
why we need to say the following we need to stop applauding our politicians for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead what we do need to do is to spend and encourage them to dramatically ramp up
Video examples
Turbulence: One of the...
but it’s ineffective in many situations. For example, the motion of the atmosphere is significantly influenced by factors including gravity and the earth’s rotation. Or take relatively simple things like the drag on buildings and cars.
Video examples
Mosquitos, malaria and...
but eventually those tools will become ineffective, and the death rate will soar back up again. And the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't pay attention. Now we're on the upswing. Bed net funding is up.
Video examples
What it takes to be a...
and also frustrated by those stories, that I left my job so that I could study this full time, and I took a year to travel to different parts of the world to learn about effective and ineffective leadership practices in companies,
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How Solving this Medical...
medicine had paid ineffective for voted the entirety of human history and how they were going down the right path so curative medicine came of age loyalty because doctors knew what actually causes disease
Video examples
Mosquitos, malaria and...
you'll reduce the disease burden but eventually those tools will become ineffective and the death rate will soar back up again and the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't
Video examples
Let's talk about sex -...
guess completely ineffective. We love big solutions to big problems, don't we? What if the facts of life don't work that way? What if the experience of having that conversation can't be mass-produced?
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.
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Simon Mainwaring
Businessman
More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.
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Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
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Kim Fields
American Actress
Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.
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C. S. Lewis
British Writer
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
An inherent tension between the seeming ineffectiveness of immediate and individual action and the long view the government is trying to take here may be common to every society trying to reduce emissions and to encourage participation.
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Hisham Matar
American Writer
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
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T. J. Miller
American Actor
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
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Phil Gingrey
American Politician
Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.
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Dick Van Dyke
American Actor
Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
Quote examples
Tom Frieden
American Public Servant
The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.
Quote examples
Simon Mainwaring
Businessman
More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.
Quote examples
Rosa Luxemburg
Russian Activist
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
Quote examples
Kim Fields
American Actress
Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.
Quote examples
C. S. Lewis
British Writer
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
An inherent tension between the seeming ineffectiveness of immediate and individual action and the long view the government is trying to take here may be common to every society trying to reduce emissions and to encourage participation.
Quote examples
Hisham Matar
American Writer
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
Quote examples
T. J. Miller
American Actor
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
Quote examples
Phil Gingrey
American Politician
Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.
Quote examples
Dick Van Dyke
American Actor
Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
Example 1 of 10
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