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Feckless vs Shiftless - What's the difference?

feckless | shiftless |

As adjectives the difference between feckless and shiftless

is that feckless is lacking purpose while shiftless is lazy, unmotivated.

feckless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking purpose.
  • * 2005 , Canberra Times , September 10
    • It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman."
  • Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
  • (UK) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
  • (British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

    • Synonyms

    * futile, hopeless, ineffective, ineffectual, feeble, meaningless, useless * unpurposed, worthless, aimless, careless, reckless, irresponsible

    Antonyms

    * effective, efficient, meaningful, useful * purposeful, careful, responsible

    Related terms

    * fecklessly * fecklessness

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    shiftless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • lazy, unmotivated
  • untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job