Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ineffectuate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ef-fec-tu-ate
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make ineffectual; to disable.

Example Sentences

"The case of the Malinau study provides an excellent example of how the social and political elements conspire to ineffectuate expert-led decisionmaking in the environmental planning process."
"The existence of chaos does ineffectuate the Newtonian image of a clockwork universe and the Laplacean dream of a completely controllable world."
"These groups of phytochemicals possess wide ranging chemical functional groups; by which they establish and bind to sites on target pathogens to ineffectuate them."

Etymology

From ineffectu(al) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Inflected Forms

ineffectuates (present, singular) ineffectuating (participle, present) ineffectuated (participle, past) ineffectuated (past)

Questions

What does ineffectuate mean?: To make ineffectual; to disable.
Where does ineffectuate come from?: From ineffectu(al) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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