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feck·less    Audio Help   [fek-lis] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
2.having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

[Origin: 1590–1600; orig. Scots, equiv. to feck, late ME (Scots) fek, aph. form of effeck (Scots form of effect) + -less]

feck·less·ly, adverb
feck·less·ness, noun
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feck·less    Audio Help   (fěk'lĭs)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
  2. Careless and irresponsible.


[Scots feck, effect (alteration of effect) + -less.]

feck'less·ly adv., feck'less·ness n.
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feckless 
1599, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (1470), Scot. shortened form of effect; popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dial. obscurity.

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feckless

adjective
1. not fit to assume responsibility 
2. generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" 

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Feckless

Feck"less\, a. [Perh. a corruption of effectless.] Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]
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