Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-EF-FECT'U-AL, a. [in and effectual.]

Not producing its proper effect, or not able to produce its effect; inefficient; weak; as, an ineffectual remedy; the Spaniards made an ineffectual attempt to reduce Gibraltar. [See Inefficacious.]

IN-EF-FECT'U-AL-LY, adv.

Without effect; in vain.

IN-EF-FECT'U-AL-NESS, n.

Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. James speaks of the ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.

IN-EF-FER-VES'CENCE, n. [in and effervescence.]

Want of effervescence; a state of not effervescing. Kirwan.

IN-EF-FER-VES'CENT, a.

Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence.

IN-EF-FER-VES-CI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of not effervescing, or not being susceptible of effervescence. Kirwan.

IN-EF-FER-VES'CI-BLE, a.

Not capable of effervescence.

IN-EF-FI-CA'CIOUS, a. [It. and Fr. inefficace; L. inefficax; in and efficax, efficio, to effect; ex and facio, to make.]

Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired, or the proper effect; of inadequate power of force. Ineffectual, says Johnson, rather denotes an actual failure, and inefficacious, an habitual impotence to any effect. But the distinction is not always observed, nor can it be; for we can not always know whether means are inefficacious, till experiment has proved them ineffectual; nor even then, for we can not be certain that the failure of means to produce an effect is to be attributed to habitual want of power, or to accidental and temporary causes. Inefficacious is therefore sometimes synonymous with ineffectual.

IN-EF-FI-CA'CIOUS-LY, adv.

Without efficacy or effect.

IN-EF-FI-CA'CIOUS-NESS, n.

Want of power to produce the effect, or want of effect.

IN-EF'FI-CA-CY, n. [in and efficacy, L. efficacia.]

1. Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; as, the inefficacy of medicines or of means.
2. Ineffectualness; failure of effect.

IN-EF-FI'CIEN-CY, n. [in and efficiency.]

Want of power, or exertion of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.

IN-EF-FI'CIENT, a. [in and efficient.]

1. Not efficient; not producing the effect; inefficacious.
2. Not active; effecting nothing; as, an inefficient force. Chesterfield.

IN-EF-FI'CIENT-LY, adv.

Ineffectually; without effect.

IN-E-LAB'O-RATE, a.

Not elaborate; not wrought with care. Cockeram.

IN-E-LAS'TIC, a. [in and elastic.]

Not elastic; wanting elasticity; unelastic.

IN-E-LAS-TIC'I-TY, n.

The absence of elasticity; the want of elastic power.

IN-EL'E-GANCE, or IN-EL'E-GAN-CY, n. [See Inelegant.]

Want of elegance; want of beauty or polish in language, composition or manners; want of symmetry or ornament in building; want of delicacy in coloring, &c.

IN-EL'E-GANT, a. [L. inelegans; in and elegans, from the root of eligo, to choose.]

Not elegant; wanting beauty or polish, as language, or refinement, as manners; wanting symmetry or ornament, as an edifice; in short, wanting in any thing which correct taste requires.

IN-EL'E-GANT-LY, adv.

In an inelegant or unbecoming manner; coarsely; roughly. Chesterfield.

IN-EL-I-GI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from ineligible.]

1. Incapacity of being elected to an office.
2. State or quality of not being worthy of choice.

IN-EL'I-GI-BLE, a. [in and eligible.]

1. Not capable of being elected to an office.
2. Not worthy to be chosen or preferred; not expedient.

IN-EL'I-GI-BLY, adv.

In an ineligible manner.

IN-EL'O-QUENT, a. [in and eloquent.]

1. Not eloquent; not speaking with fluency, propriety, grace and pathos; not persuasive; used of persons.
2. Not fluent, graceful or pathetic; not persuasive; as language or composition. Milton.

IN-EL'O-QUENT-LY, adv.

Without eloquence.