HEENA R. PARDESHI

Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me), it’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week.

If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.

Here’s this week’s WOW:

Word:

Feckless

Part Of Speech:

feckless: adjective

Pronunciation: 

feck·less

Meaning: 

Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.

Synonyms:

useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, good-for-nothing.

Antonyms:

effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expedient, operant, responsible, useful.

Word Origin: 

Late 16th century: from Scots and northern English dialect feck (from effeck, variant of effect) + -less.

Use in sentence: 

adjective:

She can’t rely on her feckless son.

The feckless man no longer cares for his wife ‘s ideals, or even for himself.

noun:

The drill sergeant’s intent was to convince all therecruits of their fecklessness.

adverb:

He performed his functions fecklessly.

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