feckless

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɛkləs/|/ˈfɛklɪs/    美 /ˈfɛkləs/|/ˈfɛklɪs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking purpose.
    — It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman.
  2. Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
    — This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.
  3. Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
    — China is “proving to be a feckless friend for its authoritarian allies,” Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China under President Joe Biden, wrote on X.
  4. Lacking vitality. UK,archaic

词形变化

more feckless comparative most feckless superlative

词汇关系

反义词
effective efficient meaningful useful purposeful careful responsible
相关词
fecklessly fecklessness

词源

From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.
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