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
- "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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