Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
not fit to assume responsibility;
2.
generally incompetent and ineffectual;
- Example: "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"- Example: "inept handling of the account"[syn: feckless, inept]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Feckless \Feck"less\, a. [Perh. a corruption of effectless.]
Spiritless; weak; worthless. [Scot]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
feckless
adj 1: not fit to assume responsibility
2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to
repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn:
feckless, inept]