Feckless

Quick meaning: Feckless is an adjective meaning Lacking purpose.

Meaning

Lacking purpose.

More Meanings

1. Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
2. Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
3. (British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Across the country, Democratic voters who have been reeling from Mr. Trump’s sweeping and possibly illegal cuts to government, his head-spinning policy moves, and his politicization of federal law enforcement are growing more and more incensed at their own party’s seemingly feckless response.

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.

Synonyms for feckless

Depending on context, synonyms include futile, hopeless, ineffective, ineffectual, feeble, meaningless.

Antonyms for feckless

Common opposites include effective, efficient, meaningful, useful, purposeful, careful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inept, incompetent, irresponsible, reckless, unaccountable, aimless.

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