forceless

adjective

Definition of forcelessnext
as in ineffective

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forceless
  1. ineffective
  2. flabby
  3. ineffectual
  4. weak
  5. powerless
  6. flaccid
  7. impotent
  8. spineless
Adjective
  • Don't Apply Herbicide to a Dormant Lawn Herbicide, just like fertilizer, is ineffective on a dormant lawn.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The scientists concluded that the cull was ineffective, and advised officials in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to focus on the cows, and leave the badger out of it.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of ineffective
Adjective
  • At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • His pale face and flabby jowls belie too much time spent under fluorescent office lighting, too little in the gym.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of flabby
Adjective
  • Dyer dismissed concerns that the arrests are ineffectual, saying the camping ban is just one part of the city's broader strategy to address homelessness, which includes investing in shelter and affordable housing.
    Vanessa Rancaño, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Perón died a year later and was succeeded by his third wife, the ineffectual Isabel Perón.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of ineffectual
Adjective
  • Its woman-on-the-run story is weak at times, not quite engaging enough to get through the constant death and destruction.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • China’s persistently low consumer inflation indicates that China is struggling with weak domestic demand, stoking fears of deflation.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of weak
Adjective
  • In short, its core competency needs to be responding to predictable natural disasters rather than virtue-signaling about climate change that its expensive (but piddling in the global scheme of things) green-energy initiatives are powerless to affect one way or the other.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
  • His Democratic opposition is weak and largely powerless — although Republicans' tiny margin in the House will be a constant threat.
    Axios, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of powerless
Adjective
  • But given the Biden Administration’s flaccid border policy, Trump carried 89% of voters who ranked immigration as their top concern.
    Nancy Gibbs, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The discovery that flaccid penises are a bit like snowflakes — and need to be differentiated for realism reasons.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of flaccid
Adjective
  • The old president is impotent, the new president is embryonic, Congress is inert, and the press has one eye on the mistletoe.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission typically choose to be impotent.
    Gary Franks, Boston Herald, 21 June 2024
Definition of impotent
Adjective
  • Zuckerberg blasts Biden admin on Joe Rogan; Dave Portnoy calls CEO ‘spineless jellyfish’ Robby Soave and Lynda Tran react to Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
    The Hill, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
  • There are about 60 games left and plenty of time to make up that kind of ground, especially in the AL West against the spineless Mariners and after getting through the Astros last year.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
Definition of spineless
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Thesaurus Entries Near forceless

forcefulness

forceless

for certain

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