Antonyms for feckless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fek-lis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛk lɪs

Definition of feckless

Origin : 1590s, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (late 15c.), Scottish shortened form of effect, + -less. Popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dialectal obscurity. Related: Fecklessly; fecklessness.

adj without purpose

Example sentences :

"It caps all—you niver heard sec feckless wark," she was saying.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

As for that feckless loon Bombazo, the peer body is best in bed.'
Extract from : « Our Home in the Silver West » by Gordon Stables

If ye miss that, ye must be as feckless at the sailoring as I have found ye at the fighting.
Extract from : « Kidnapped » by Robert Louis Stevenson

My love is so feckless, that it is a shame to offer it to Him!
Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Rutherford » by Samuel Rutherford

Madam, let others take their silly, feckless heaven in this life.
Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Rutherford » by Samuel Rutherford

“Frae sunset to sunset has this hand been feckless as a withered rush,” he said.
Extract from : « The Mosstrooper » by Robert Scott Fittis

The feckless Finn seemed struck with the idea; it had not occurred to him before.
Extract from : « Through Arctic Lapland » by Cutcliffe Hyne

I thought men were too feckless to have curtains without a woman.
Extract from : « Tono Bungay » by H. G. Wells

She glowered at the rows of feckless bodies that lay sprawled in the chairs.
Extract from : « Song of the Lark » by Willa Cather

It continued to be a "foreign" and "feckless" sort of instrument.
Extract from : « The Doctor » by Ralph Connor

Synonyms for feckless

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