feckless

• adj.効果がない；弱い；気力がない；無責任；弱々しい

feck、effect、効果、価値から略される。-feckless、ない、なし。性格の悪い、fecklessから派生。

feckless

feckless: [16] From an etymological point of view, feckless is simply another way of saying ineffective. It originated in Scotland, where from the 15th century the local population economized on the pronunciation of effect, reducing it to feck (this survived into modern times in the sense ‘efficacy’). From it was formed feckless, literally ‘having no effect’, and also feckful ‘efficient, vigorous’, which never made it further south than northern England.
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feckless (adj.)

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

1. Her husband was a charming，but lazy and feckless man.

彼女の夫は人に好かれているが、怠け者で見込みのない人だ。

2.He regarded the young man as feckless and irresponsible.

彼はこの若者は無能であるだけでなく、責任を負わないと思っている。

3.German banks lent hand over fist to feckless foreign borrowers.

ドイツ銀行は、財務状態の悪い外国人借り手に大量に融資していた。

4.The feckless ユキオハトヤマ、who stepped down on June 2 nd a grand total of 259 days.

鳩山由紀夫氏は何もできず、6月2日に辞任を表明した。在任期間は259日。