Reverse Dictionary: INDIS – INEK

INDISCREET – person
– BABBLER a person who talks indiscreetly; a teller of secrets; a gossip, a blabber …1555
– BLABBERLIP an indiscreet talker, a gossip, a telltale …c1551 UK sl.
– BLABBERMOUTH one who reveals secrets, a telltale, a gossip, an indiscreet talker …1916 sl., orig. US
– BLABMOUTHER a talkative person; an indiscreet talker; a gossip, a telltale …1893 US sl.
– BLAB-TIT an indiscreet talker; a telltale …1894 Eng. dial.
– BLAB-TONGUE an indiscreet talker; a telltale …1600
– BLADDERSKATE a silly foolish person; an indistinct or indiscreet talker; a babbler …a1680 Sc.
– BLOBBERMOUTH an indiscreet talker …1930s sl.
– DAFT WATTY a blockhead; a silly, awkward person; an indiscreet or foolish fellow …1805 Eng. dial.
– GABBER a person who talks a great deal; a fluent or skilful speaker; also, later, a person who talks too much; an indiscreet talkative person; a prattler; a gossip …1792
– IMPRUDENT † a rash, heedless, or incautious person; one who is indiscreet …1753 
– LOOSE WOMAN an indiscreet female …20C US colloq.
– WAP a person defective in discretion …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– WATTY a simpleton; an indiscreet or foolish person …B1900 Eng. dial.
indiscreet – verbs 
– BLOB to talk indiscreetly or excessively; to blab out, to chat …1899 Amer. dial.
– SHOOT OFF ONE’S MOUTH to talk indiscreetly or abusively; to talk unrestrainedly or at length, to assert one’s opinions; to boast or brag …1864 sl.
 
INDISCRETION – verbs
– DROP A BRICK to commit an indiscretion, make a ‘bloomer’, to blunder …1923 sl.
 
INDISCRIMINATE – adjectives
– HAND-OVER-HEAD † thoughtlessly extravagant; precipitate, rash, reckless; indiscriminate …a1693 now rare or obs.
 
INDISCRIMINATELY – adverbs
– HAND OVER HEAD † precipitately, hastily, rashly, recklessly; indiscriminately …c1440 now rare or obs.
– PELLY MELLY †* in a confused way or manner; in disorder and hurry; indiscriminately …c1450
 
INDISPENSABILITY – nouns
– NECESSARINESS * the fact of being necessary; indispensability, necessity …1551
– SINE-QUA-NONNINESS indispensability …1834
 
INDISPENSABLE – adjectives
– SINE QUA NON indispensable, absolutely necessary or essential …1615
– SINE-QUA-NONICAL indispensable …1816
indispensable – nouns 
– NEED-BE * an essential or necessary reason; a necessity; something compulsory, indispensable, or requisite …1728
indispensable – person 
– SINE QUA NON somebody or something indispensable …1602
 
INDISPOSED – adjectives
– ACRAZED † weakened, enfeebled, diseased in body, affected with illness, indisposed; impaired …1521
– ALL-OVERISH having a general feeling of illness or agitation that seems to affect the whole body; generally indisposed; off-colour …1820 colloq.
– BADLY unwell, indisposed, sick, in ill health …1783 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– BELOW PAR somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BRASH indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health …1895 Amer. dial.
– BRASHY indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health; weak; of delicate constitution; subject to frequent ailments …1895 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– BUMMY ill, though not seriously so, indisposed …1931 Amer. dial.
– DOWN IN THE MOUTH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DOWN PIN depressed, indisposed …L19 sl.
– DUMPY somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FEELING FUNNY somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HAVING THE IMPUCK somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ILLISH * somewhat ill or unwell; indisposed …1637
– LAIN ASIDE unable to work from bodily indisposition …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MAWKISH slightly indisposed; faint; sick from drinking …1896 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOTHING TO SHOUT ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOTHING TO WIRE HOME ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO DICK somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO PAR somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO SAMPLE somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO SCRATCH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO SNUFF somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NOT UP TO THE MARK somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFFISH unwell, out of health, somewhat ill, indisposed …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF OF ONE’S FEED unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed …1965 Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S EATS unable to eat normally; slightly ill; indisposed …1965  Amer. dial.
– OFF ONE’S FEED not feeling or looking well; indisposed …1862 US sl.
– OFF ONE’S FORM somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF POLISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OFF THE HOOKS somewhat ill; indisposed; unwell, ailing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– OFF TONE somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OUT OF ONE’S FORM somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PALTRY unwell, feeble, indisposed …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– POORISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– POORLYISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUNKISH somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PUNKY somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– SADLY-BADLY very ill or unwell; very much indisposed …1880 Eng. dial.
– UNGEEN not given to, indisposed, disinclined …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
indisposed – verbs
– COME OVER ALL PECULIAR to feel suddenly physically indisposed or emotionally upset …2003 UK sl.
– COME OVER ALL QUEER to feel suddenly physically indisposed or emotionally upset …1937 UK sl.
– LOOK LIKE ONE WAS SENT FOR AND COULDN’T COME to look indisposed, out of sorts, or exhausted …1843 Amer. dial.
 
INDISPOSITION – nouns
– ACHAQUE † habitual indisposition, ailment …1646
– SINKING SPELL an episode of weakness, shortness of breath, palpitations, or the like; a spell of difficult breathing; indisposition …1874 Amer. dial.
– TARROW a slight illness, an indisposition …1866 Sc.
 
INDISPUTABLE – adjectives
– UNCONTROLLABLE † indisputable, irrefutable …1577
– UNCONTROVERSABLE † undoubted, indisputable …1617
 
INDISTINCT – adjectives
– CREPUSCULOUS of the nature of twilight; in a state between light and darkness; dim, glimmering, dusky, indistinct, obscure …1646
– DASHY rough and indistinct …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DULLY faint, indistinct …1832 poetic usage
– FLANNELMOUTHED speaking indistinctly and in a muffled way …US
– FURZY fuzzy, indistinct, blurred …1825
– GAVELLOUS drawling in speech; mumbling, lisping, indistinct …1903 Sc.
– LIKE A HUMBLE-BEE IN A CHURN having a voice not distinctly audible …B1900 Eng. dial.
– MUSHMOUTHED unable to speak clearly …1977 US sl.
– NEBULOSE cloudy, misty, indistinct …1799
– NEBULOUS hazy, vague, indistinct, formless …1831
– OBLITE †* dim, as if partly blotted out; indistinct, obscure …1650
– OBNUBILOUS †* overclouded; cloudy, indistinct …1432-50
– SLURRY blurred, indistinct, esp. of speech …M20
– THICK OF SPEECH indistinct …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIP-TONGUED inarticulate, indistinct in utterance, lisping …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TONGUE-DOUBLED having the speech made indistinct by drink …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TONGUE-TACKIT mumbling, indistinct in speech, inarticulate …1923 Sc.
– VEILED of sound, the voice, etc.: indistinct, muffled, obscure …1834
indistinct – nouns
– JABBERING nonsense; indistinct and rapid speech …1690 sl.
– OOM an indistinct appearance or image of anything, as the loom of land through a haze …1892 Sc.
indistinct – person
– BLADDERSKATE a silly foolish person; an indistinct or indiscreet talker; a babbler …a1680 Sc.
– JABBERER one who talks indistinctly or unintelligibly – one who talks nonsense – a chatterer …1678
– MUSHMOUTH a person who speaks indistinctly or inarticulately …US sl.
– YACKUZ † one who talks thickly or indistinctly …1824 Sc. 
indistinct – verbs 
– BLETHER to speak indistinctly; to stammer …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUZZ to speak indistinctly; to mutter, to murmur busily …1555 arch.
– CACKLE to stutter, to speak indistinctly …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DROTE † to speak indistinctly; to stammer, to stutter …c1440
– FLUMMER † to repeat indistinctly, to mumble …1533
– FUZZ to make fuzzy, indistinct, or confused; to blur, to confound …1907
– GABBER to jabber, to gibber, to talk incoherently; to speak thickly or indistinctly …1706-7 obs. exc. Sc.
– JABBER to chatter; to speak fast and indistinctly; to talk gibberish …c1500 colloq.
– JABBLE to talk rapidly and indistinctly or unintelligibly; to speak volubly and with little sense; to chatter, to gabble, to prattle …1570
– MAFFLE † to mumble; to speak indistinctly, to stammer …1387 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MOUTH-MAUL to talk loudly and abusively; to drawl; to speak indistinctly …1876 Eng. dial.
– NAFFER to talk through the nose; to talk indistinctly …Bk1903 Eng. dial.
– PALTER † to speak indistinctly or idly; to say or recite in an indistinct tone; to mumble, to mutter, to babble …1538
– RABBLE to talk or read quickly or indistinctly …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– SUP UP † to utter indistinctly, to mutter, to mumble …1581
– WABBLE to stammer out, to blurt or mumble in a halting or indistinct way …1920 Sc.
– YAFFLE to talk indistinctly; to mumble, as a toothless person …1847 Eng. dial.
– YAMMER to talk or hum indistinctly; to stammer …1881 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YAWK to call out loudly; to hoot; to shout; to talk quickly and indistinctly …1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
INDISTINCTLY – adverbs
– AT HALF LIGHTS indistinctly, vaguely, dimly …1625
– BY HALF LIGHTS indistinctly, vaguely, dimly …a1711
 
INDISTINCTNESS – nouns
– NEBULOSITY cloudiness; indistinctness …1809
– NEBULOUSNESS indistinctness …1878
 
INDIVIDUAL – adjectives
– SINGULAR † separate, individual, single …c1340
– SUNDRILY †* separate, individual, special …a900
– VARSAL * single, individual …1765
– VERSAL † single; individual …1709
– VIDUAL individual, particular, distinct, precise …1850 Sc. & Eng. dial.
individual – person (also see PERSON)
– SINGULAR * a single person; an individual …1420
 
INDIVIDUALITY – nouns
– EGO-HOOD individuality, personality …1873 nonce word
– EGOITY selfhood, individuality …1651
 
INDIVIDUALIZE – verbs
– SINGULARIZE * to make singular or one; to individualize; to convert into the singular number …1663
 
INDIVIDUALLY – adverbs
– BY SUNDRIES † individually; separately …a1400-50 
– SUNDERLY † separately, apart; individually; singly …c888
– SUNDRILY † separately, severally, individually …a900
– SUNDRY † separately, apart; severally, individually …c950 obs. exc. Sc.
 
INDIVISIBLE – adjectives
– UNDEPARTABLE † inseparable; indivisible …c1374
– UNTODELINDE † indivisible …1340
 
INDOLENCE – nouns
– DESIDIOUSNESS † laziness; indolence …a1540
– GANAY an idle disposition; indolence …1876 Eng. dial.
– IDLESHIP † inactivity, want of occupation, indolence …1357
– LAITCH indolence, laziness …Bk1902 Sc.
– LUBBERLAND an imaginary land of plenty without labour; a land of laziness; the Paradise of indolence …1598
– OCIVITY †* sloth, laziness, indolence …1550
– OISIVITY idleness, indolence …1830 nonce word
 
INDOLENT – adjectives
– BONE LAZY extremely indolent or lazy …a1825
– DEAD-SWEER lazy, indolent, unwilling; undecided …1721 Sc.
– DESIDIOSE † idle, slothful, lazy, sluggish, indolent …1727
– DESIDIOUS † idle, lazy, indolent, slothful, negligent, sluggish …a1540
– DO-NOTHING doing nothing; disinclined to work or exertion; idle, indolent, inactive, lazy …1832
– DRONISH living on another’s labour; indolent, sluggish …L16
– EASY slow, easy-going; indolent …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– EASYFUL placid, indolent, easygoing, complacent …1864 Eng. dial.
– FAINÉANT that does nothing; indolent, idle …1855
– FAT slow-witted, indolent, self-complacent …1588
– LATCHING lazy, indolent …Bk1902 Sc.
– LAZY AS DAVID LAURENCE’S DOG excessively indolent …Bk1896 sl.
– LAZY AS LUDLAM’S DOG excessively indolent …Bk1896 sl.
– LUSKISH † inclined to be lazy or indolent; idle, slothful, sluggish …a1500
– MACHLESS lazy, sluggish, indolent …Bk1888 Sc.
– OSCITANT † gaping from drowsiness, yawning; hence, drowsy, dull, indolent, negligent, inattentive through drowsiness …1625 rare or obs.
– OTIANT † inactive, indolent, doing nothing, at leisure, at ease …1845
​- SIESTOSE * reposeful, indolent …1845
– ZATELY indolent, idle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
indolent – person (also see LAZY)
– DAWDLE a lazy, indolent person; a frivolous, useless person …1854 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– DAWDLING a lazy, indolent person …Bk1900 Eng. dial,
– DRONE an indolent person; an idler …E16
– GAUNT-AT-THE-DOOR † an indolent, useless person, who sits at the door and yawns; an idler, a loafer; one without mental resources …1721 Sc.
– HAGGIS a term of contempt applied to a lumpish, unwieldy person; a soft, ‘pudding-headed’ person; an indolent, do-nothing fellow …1822  
– IDLE-BACK an indolent or lazy person …1828
– IDLE BELLIES † indolent sluggards or gluttons …a1300
– IDLER one who idles or is idle; one who spends his time in idleness; an indolent or lazy person; a sluggard; one who trifles away his time …1534
– LAITCH a lazy or indolent person …Bk1902 Sc.
– MICH an indolent, lazy fellow …Bk1795 Eng. dial.
– SAWNEY, SAWNY an indolent person; a lanky person …1950 Amer. dial.
– SLONK a lazy slinking fellow; an idle, dissolute person; an indolent, clownish fellow; a hanger-on …B1900 Eng. dial.
– SLOW-BELLY a lazy, idle, or indolent person; a sluggard, a laggard …1607
indolent – verbs
– DRONE to act in a sluggish or indolent manner …E16
– EAT ONE’S OWN FLESH said of an indolent person …1611
indolent – phrases 
– WHITE DOG BITES, THE used of an indolent and lazy person …B1900 Eng. dial.
 
INDOMITABLE – adjectives
– SAVAGE * indomitable, intrepid, valiant …a1300
 
INDONESIA – person
– INDO (derogatory) a person from Indonesia …1960s sl,. orig. Aust.
– INDONS Indonesians …1973 Aust. sl. 
 
INDOORS – adverbs
– IN-A-DOORS in the house …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– INDEL indoors …1876 Eng. dial.
indoors – phrases 
– INDEL AND OUDEL phr. indoors and outdoors …1877 Eng. dial.
 
INDUCE – verbs
– IMPORT † to induce a person to do something …1649
 
INDUCEMENT – adjectives
– TEELIE encouraging, offering an inducement …B1900 Sc.
inducement – nouns 
– EGGINGS temptations, inducements …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– NEST-EGG something displayed or serving as an inducement or decoy …1678
– TILL-DOWN a relish, zest; an inducement …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
INDULGE – verbs
– BETEEM to bestow, to indulge with …1790 Eng. dial.
– CADE to pet, to fondle, to indulge, to spoil …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CLAW ONE’S TOES † to gratify or indulge oneself …c1460
– DAINTY UP †* to pamper or indulge with dainties …1622
– DALLY to pet, to indulge, to spoil …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DEBOSH to indulge oneself in the use of anything to excess …1731 Sc.  
– FADDLE † to make much of a child, to pet, to humour, to indulge … 1688 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– FAVOUR † to indulge oneself, or a feeling …1362
– INDULGIATE †* to indulge …1615
– LAY OUT to indulge oneself to excess, as in drinking …L19 Aust. sl.
– LIVE LIKE A PIG IN CLOVER to live the high life, to indulge oneself; to live extremely contentedly …1795
– MAR † to spoil a child by indulgence …1530 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MARDY to spoil, to indulge …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MARDY UP to spoil, to indulge …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAUNGE to pet; to ‘cocker up’ …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ORGE to indulge in an excess of ‘sinful’ pleasures, esp. of food, drugs, shopping, sex …1999 UK sl.
– PALLIATE † to appease, to please or indulge one’s taste …1631
– PAMPLE † to indulge, to pamper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– POO THE BACKIE to indulge a little …1907 Sc.
– SALLIT to indulge luxuriously …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TIDDLE † to fondle or indulge to excess; to pet, to pamper; to tend carefully, to nurse, to cherish …1560 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
– TITTLE † to fondle or indulge to excess; to pet, to pamper; to tend carefully, to nurse, to cherish …1560 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TOSSION UP to indulge or coddle a child …1912 Amer. dial.
– TUTOR to indulge, to spoil a child, to pamper …1927 Amer. dial.
– WALLY † to cocker up; to indulge; to stroke the back of an animal gently; to obtain one’s end by means of caresses or flattery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
INDULGED – adjectives
– BEAM-FILLED indulged …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CADDLED indulged, spoiled …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CADE petted, indulged, spoiled; applied to lambs brought  up by hand, and hence to children …1790 Eng. dial.
– MARDY spoiled, petted, over-indulged; pettish, peevish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MARRED spoiled, petted, over-indulged; pettish, peevish …1865 Eng. dial.
indulged – person 
– CADE a spoiled, indulged child …1877 now Eng. & Amer. dial.
– DANDILLY a young person who through over-indulgence is become feeble in body, or pettish in temper, or both …1808 Sc.
– DAUTIE, DAWTIE, DAWTY a person caressed or indulged; a darling, a pet, a favourite; a term of affection …1676 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MAMMIEKEEKIE a spoil, indulged child …1923 Sc.
– MAM’S FOUT a spoilt, over-indulged child …1825 Sc.
– MAM’S PET a spoilt, over-indulged child …1721 Sc.
– WANTON † a person, esp. a child, spoiled by over-indulgence and excessive leniency; a spoiled child, a pampered pet …1526
 
INDULGENCE – adjectives
– DEBOSHING given to excessive indulgence; wasteful …B1900 Sc.  
indulgence – nouns 
– DEBOSH excessive indulgence, a debauch; extravagance, waste …1828 Sc.  
– FAVOUR † an indulgence, privilege …1634
– MARDNESS softness, lack of endurance, indulgence …1885 Eng. dial.
– SLICE OFF A CUT LOAF continuation of some wrongful indulgence, esp, sexual …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– WANK self-indulgence …1970s US sl.
 
INDULGENT – adjectives
– BUXOM † gracious, indulgent, favourable; obliging, amiable, courteous, affable, kindly …1362
– LARGE † indulgent, lax; not strict or rigorous …c1440
– ON THE BATTER engaging in a self-indulgent variety of drinks, drugs, and other recreational excesses …1839 UK sl.
– TIDDLING † over-indulgent …16C
indulgent – verbs
– SHAKE A FREE LEG to do something indulgent or hedonistic; to act according to one’s desires without being restrained by law, religious beliefs, etc. …1856
– SHAKE A LOOSE LEG to do something indulgent or hedonistic; to act according to one’s desires without being restrained by law, religious beliefs, etc. …1743
 
INDUSTRIAL – nouns
– CANCER ALLEY the industrial area of a city …1980s US sl.
 
INDUSTRIAL ACTION – nouns
– BLUE FLU originally, in the US, a form of industrial action in which large numbers of police officers fail to attend work on the pretext of illness; later, industrial action of this type taken by other workers ,,,1967 
 
INDUSTRIOUS – adjectives
– AMBITIOUS energetic, lively, industrious …1889 Amer. dial.
– BRICKLE eager, keen, industrious, ambitious …1902 Amer. dial.
– CLIFTY smart, busy, industriously active …1892 Eng. dial.
– CRACKERJACK excellent; industrious …Bk2006 US sl.
– EIDENT diligent, industrious, busy, attentive to; hard-working …1591 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– ENDEAVOURING industrious, hard-working …1868 Eng. dial.
– NATTY handy, deft; industrious; clever, ingenious …1888 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– OPEROSE of a person: laborious; industrious, busy …1670
– OPEROUS † made or done with much labour or effort; laborious, industrious, busy; painstaking, tedious; toilsome; elaborate …a1538
​- SHIFTY alert; busy; industrious and successful …1912 Amer. dial.
– SMART of a person: energetic and effective in working; industrious, diligent …1866 Amer. dial.
– TEWING hard-working, industrious, energetic …1729 Eng. dial.
– TEWSOME hard-working, industrious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VERTIE † careful, cautious, prudent; industrious, wide-awake, eager; attentive to business …1804 Sc.
– VIRTUOUS † thrifty, industrious …Bk1905 Sc.
industrious – nouns  (includes INDUSTRIOUSNESS)
– EIDENCE industry, diligence …1897 Sc.
– NEGOTIOUSNESS †* busyness; want of leisure; diligence, industriousness …1642
industrious – person 
– BANE an industrious, diligent, persevering man …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– EMMET an industrious person …1904 Amer. dial.
– SCART a saving, industrious person; a niggard; a villain; a fool …1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– SCRAT a saving, industrious person; a mean, niggardly, contemptible fellow;  a miser …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TEWER a hard worker; an industrious, energetic person …1878 Eng. dial.
industrious – verbs
– INDUSTHER to work hard; to be industrious …1880 N. Ireland
– SCART to lead a laborious, industrious life …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCRAFFLE to work hard with small success; to struggle for a living; to be industrious …1856 Eng. dial.
 
INDUSTRIOUSLY – adverbs
– EIDENTLY diligently, industriously, attentively …1838 Sc.
– HARDFULLY industriously …1877 Eng. dial.
– LIKE KILLING BLACK SNAKES very industriously, intensively …1906 Amer. dial.
– LIKE KILLING SNAKES very industriously, intensively …1956 Amer. dial.
 
INEDIBLE – adjectives
– UNKIRSEN unfit for food; inedible …Bk1905 Sc.
– WOULD KILL A BROWN DOG of food: dreadful, disgusting, inedible …1966 Aust. sl.
 
INEFFECTIVE – adjectives
– DRIPPY weak; ineffective; undesirable …Bk2006 US sl.
– EFFETE incapable of efficient action; ineffective …1790
– FECKLESS of things: ineffective, feeble, futile, valueless, worthless …1599 orig. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– INEFFICACIOUS ineffective …M17
– INFICIENT †* ineffective, of no effect …1609
– PARALYTIC deprived or destitute of energy or power of action; powerless, ineffective; characterized by impotency, or powerlessness …1642
– SISYPHEAN of or pert. to Sisyphus (a king of Corinth, whose punishment in Hades was to roll a heavy stone up a hill; as he reached the top, the stone rolled down again); resembling the fruitless toil of Sisyphus; endless and ineffective …1635
– SISYPHIAN resembling the fruitless toil of Sisyphus; endless and ineffective …1599
– SNAKE-BIT helplessly incapacitated; ineffective …1940s Amer. sl.
– SNAKE-BITTEN helplessly incapacitated; ineffective …1940s Amer. sl.
– WAFF of persons: feeble in body or mind, weak, exhausted, spiritless, stupid, ineffective …1822 Sc.
– WAFF-LIKE of persons: feeble in body or mind, weak, exhausted, spiritless, stupid, ineffective …1822 Sc.
– WANDOUGHT feeble, ineffective, worthless …1788 Sc.
– WONKY badly done or made; ineffective; weird …1923 Amer. sl.
ineffective – nouns
– FART IN A THUNDERSTORM, A something of negligible worth or impact; something insignificant, ineffective, or fleeting …1989 UK sl.
ineffective – person 
– BASKET CASE an ineffective or powerless person …1948
– BURNOUT someone no longer effective on the job …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
– DICKWARD a stupid and ineffective male …Bk2006 US sl.
– DICKWEED a stupid and ineffective male …Bk2006 US sl.
– JACKASS a stupid or foolish person; an ineffective and incompetent person; a dolt or an oaf; a blockhead …1823 
– LAME DUCK a lame or incapacitated person, or one who is old, weak, or ineffective; an invalid; hence, someone or something of no use or value; an inefficient person …1814 sl.
ineffective – verbs 
– FREEZE to become immobile and ineffective from fear …1970s Amer. sl.
– FREEZE UP to become immobile and ineffective from fear …1970s Amer. sl.
– JACK AROUND to mess about; to waste time; to act childishly; to be ineffective …1960s sl.
– NEGATIVE to render ineffective, to neutralize …1837
 
INEFFECTIVELY – adverbs
– SINGLY † slightly, poorly, ineffectively …1548.
 
INEFFECTUAL – adjectives
– CHINLESS said of someone of weak character; incompetent, ineffectual …1881 sl., orig. US
– DAMP weak, ineffectual …Brit. sl.
– DRIPPY ineffectual, incompetent …1947 sl., orig. US
– DROOBY ineffectual, incompetent; contemptible …1972 Aust. sl.
– FAGGOT weak, ineffectual …1960s sl.
– FUTILITOUS †* futile, useless, ineffectual …1765
– FUTILOUS † futile, useless, ineffectual, vain …1607
– HALF-ARSED careless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, ineffectual, incompetent, second-rate …1865 US sl.
– HALF-ASS careless, ineffectual, inadequate, incompetent, second-rate; mediocre, insignificant, unsatisfactory …M19 sl.
– HALF-ASSED ineffectual, incompetent …1932 sl.
– HAM ineffectual, incompetent …1941 sl.
– HOPELESS ineffectual, incompetent …1922 sl.
– JACK-LEG ineffectual, incompetent; amateur, untrained; said of someone without skill or training …1850 US sl.
– LAME easily imposed upon; stupid; inept; ineffectual; incompetent; unaware; inexperienced …1935 US sl., esp. Black usage
– MICKEY MOUSE applied to something small and ineffectual; trivial, time-wasting …1951
– MOOKY foolish, contemptible, ineffectual …1967 US sl.
– NEBBICH ineffectual, incompetent …1960 sl.
– NEBBISH ineffectual, incompetent …1941 sl.
– NEBBISHE ineffectual, incompetent …1960 sl.
– NEBBISHER ineffectual, incompetent …1960 sl.
– NEBBISHY ineffectual, awkward, clumsy …1993 Amer. dial.
– NEBISH ineffectual, incompetent …1960 sl.
– NERDY ineffectual, incompetent …1978 sl., orig. US
– PATHETIC ineffectual, incompetent …1937 sl.
– POOPY ineffectual, incompetent …1957 sl., chiefly US
– SPASTIC ineffectual, incompetent …1981 sl.
– THAVELESS listless, spiritless, wanting in energy or force; aimless, ineffectual, bootless …1835 Ireland
– THIEVELESS listless, spiritless, wanting in energy or force; aimless, ineffectual, bootless …1835 Sc.
– UNABLE TO FIGHT ONE’S WAY OUT OF A PAPERBAG ineffectual; lacking strength; lacking spirit …Aust. sl.
– UNABLE TO FIGHT ONE’S WAY OUT OF A WET PAPERBAG ineffectual; lacking strength; lacking spirit …Aust. sl.
– WEAK AS A WET WHISTLE very weak or ineffectual  …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– WET ineffectual, incompetent …1916 Brit. sl.
– WIMPISH ineffectual, incompetent …1925 sl., orig. US
– WIMPY ineffectual, incompetent …1967 sl., orig. US
ineffectual – nouns 
– BIT OF FLUFF anything considered insignificant or ineffectual …1980s sl.
ineffectual – person
– ACE a foolish or ineffectual person; a clumsy person; an oaf, a jerk: used sarcastically …1969 US campus sl.
– BAG OF WIND (derogatory) a person who speaks or writes at length but says little of substance or value; a pompously verbose speaker; a boaster; also, a loud-mouthed but ineffectual person …1816 colloq.
– BENCHER any idle or ineffectual person …L19 US sl.
– BENCH-WARMER a person who sits idly on a bench; any lazy or ineffectual person …1662 sl.
– BIG GIRL’S BLOUSE a weak, cowardly, timid, or oversensitive man; an ineffectual person; an effeminate male …1969 UK sl.
– BIT OF FLUFF an insignificant or ineffectual person …Bk1984 sl.
– CHINLESS WONDER an ineffectual (young) upper-class man …1962 Brit. sl.
– DEADHEAD a dull and ineffectual person; a lifeless or boring person …1907 sl.
– DRIP an ineffectual or incompetent person …1932 sl.
– DROOB an ineffectual or incompetent person; an unprepossessing or contemptible person. esp. a man …1933 Aust. sl.
– DROOP an ineffectual, incompetent, or languid person; a fool …1932 US sl.
– DROOPY-DRAWERS an ineffectual or incompetent person …1939 sl.
– DRUBE an ineffectual or incompetent person …1933 Aust. sl.
– DUB an ineffectual or incompetent person …1887 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– DUFFER an ineffectual or incompetent person; one of no ability …c1730 UK sl.
– EGG a foolish, ineffectual, or obnoxious person …1918 US sl.
– FEEB an ineffectual or incompetent person …1911 US sl.
– FEEBLE † a feeble person; a weak, frail, or ineffectual person …1340
– GALAH a fool, a stupid person; a simpleton; an ineffectual person …1938 Aust. sl. 
– GAWDELPUS an ineffectual, useless, or incompetent person; a generally miserable looking person …1908 sl.
– GAWD-HELP-US an ineffectual or incompetent person …1908 sl.
– GAYLORD an ineffectual person; hence, a homosexual man; often as a term of abuse …1976 sl., chiefly Brit.
– GAZOOK an ineffectual or incompetent person; a clumsy oaf …1901 sl., orig. US
– GEEK an ineffectual or incompetent person …1876 sl., orig. Brit.
– GINK a dull, ineffectual, or insignificant person; a jerk …1906 sl.
– GIRL’S BLOUSE a weakling; an ineffectual person; an effeminate male  …1969 UK sl.
– GREAT GIRL’S BLOUSE an ineffectual male, often with suggestion of effeminacy …1983 Brit. sl.
– HALF-PINT a short, small or insignificant person; an ineffectual person, esp. a light-built male; a child …1876 US sl.
– HALF-STEPPER one who promises things, but never properly achieves them; hence, one who cannot be depended upon; an ineffectual person …1981 sl., orig. US prison usage
– HARRIS TWEED a small, ineffectual man …Bk2004 Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘weed’
– MALLIFUFF an ineffectual, fussy woman who lacks energy to get things done …1808 Sc.
– MAULIFUFF an ineffectual, fussy woman who lacks energy to get things done …1808 Sc.
– MESS an ineffectual or incompetent person …1936 sl.
– MILKTOAST a timid, ineffectual person … Bk1989
– MOOK (derogatory) a term of abuse; an incompetent, ineffectual, foolish, or stupid person; a contemptible person (esp. with reference to low social status) …1930 US & Caribbean colloq.
– MOPOKE a stupid, ineffectual, or tiresome person; a slow or lugubrious person; a fool; often used as a term of abuse …1845 chiefly Aust.
– MOPUS † a simpleton; a dull, inactive, stupid, or ineffectual person; a worthless person; a dreamer …a1635 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MUSH-HEAD an ineffectual or incompetent person …1890 US sl.
– NAF a fool; a weakling; an ineffectual person …1960s S. Afr. sl.
– NEBBICH an ineffectual or incompetent person …1960 sl.
– NEBBISH, NEBISH an ineffectual, awkward, clumsy, or hapless person …1941 Amer. dial.
– NEBBISHE an ineffectual or incompetent person …1960 sl.
– NEBBISHER an ineffectual or incompetent person …1960 sl.
– NELLY (derogatory) an effeminate or homosexual man; generally, a silly, ineffectual, or fussy person; a sissy …1931 colloq.
– NERD a person lacking in social skills, fashion sense, or both; someone studious but socially inept; an ineffectual or incompetent person; an oaf, a jerk ……1951 chiefly US colloq.
– NERK an ineffectual or incompetent person …1966 Brit. sl.
– NO-HOPER an ineffectual or incompetent person …1943 sl., orig. Aust.
– NUMBNUTS an ineffectual man …Aust. sl.
– NURD a person lacking in social skills, fashion sense, or both; an ineffectual or incompetent person; someone studious but socially inept; an oaf, a jerk …1951 sl., chiefly US
– PALOOKA an ineffectual or incompetent person …1925 sl., chiefly US
– PISHER an ineffectual or incompetent person …1942 US sl.
– PLUG an ineffectual or incompetent person …1848 sl., chiefly US
– POGO an ineffectual or incompetent person …1972 Aust. sl.
– POOP an ineffectual or incompetent person …1915 sl.
– POOP-STICK an ineffectual or incompetent person …1930 sl.
– PRICK an ineffectual or incompetent man …1929 sl.
– PRUNE an ineffectual or incompetent person …1895 sl., orig. US
– PUNK an ineffectual or incompetent person … M19 US sl.
– RABBIT a timid or ineffectual person; a poor or novice player …a1616
– SAD BASTARD a contemptible person; an ineffectual person …2003 UK sl.
– SADIE SACK an ineffectual, unlucky, not very bright female …Bk1989 sl.
– SAD SACK a hopelessly ineffectual person …1943 sl. 
– SAUSAGE a person easily imposed upon; an ineffectual person …1896 US college sl.
– SCHLEMIEL a fool; a clumsy person; a gullible person; an ineffectual or incompetent person …1892 sl., chiefly US
– SCHLEP(P), SHLEPP an idler, a worthless or ineffectual person; an oaf, a slob, a jerk, a stupid or awkward person …1939 Amer. dial.
– SCHLEPPER. SHLEPPER an idler, a worthless or ineffectual person; an oaf, a slob, a jerk, a stupid or awkward person; an insignificant person; a second-rater …1934 sl. orig. US
– SCISSOR-BILL an ineffectual or incompetent person …1871 sl., chiefly US
– SCISSORS-BILL one regarded as foolish; an ineffectual, incompetent, or inexperienced  person …1871 sl., chiefly US
– SHOWER 1. a group of ineffectual or incompetent people …1941 Brit. sl.
2. an ineffectual or incompetent person …1949 Brit. sl.
– SILLY OLD SAUSAGE an ineffectual, easily imposed-upon person …L19 sl.
– SILLY SAUSAGE an ineffectual, easily imposed-upon person …L19 sl.
– SPAS an ineffectual or incompetent person …1965 sl.
– SPASTIC (offensive) one who is uncoordinated, ineffectual, or incompetent; a fool; an idiot; a stupid person; a clumsy, unattractive person …1968 sl.
– SPAZZ (derogatory) a spastic person; an ineffectual, useless, or incompetent person; a fool; an idiot; a stupid person; a clumsy, unattractive person …1965 sl. 
– STIFF an ineffectual or incompetent person …1882 sl., orig. US
– STUMBLE-BUM. an ineffectual or incompetent person …1932 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– TONK an effeminate, weak, or ineffectual person …Aust. sl.
– TURKEY an ineffectual or incompetent person …1951 US  sl.
– WALLY a stupid, foolish or inept person; an ineffectual person; a bungler; a moron …1969 UK sl. 
– WET an ineffectual, weak, foolish person …1930s sl., orig. UK juvenile usage
– WET END an ineffectual, weak, foolish person …1930s sl., orig. UK juvenile usage
– WET FISH an ineffectual or incompetent person …1944 sl.
– WETSO an ineffectual, weak, foolish person …1930s sl., orig. UK juvenile usage
– WIFFER-WAFFER a useless, ineffectual person …1924 Sc.
– WIFFIE-WAFFLER a useless, ineffectual person …1935 Sc.
– WIMP a spineless, whimpering, undesirable person; an ineffectual or incompetent person; a weak, ineffectual man …1920 sl., orig. US
– WOOZ an overly timid or ineffectual person; a wimp …Aust. sl.
– WUS an overly timid or ineffectual person; a wimp …Aust. sl.
– WUSS a weak, timid person; an ineffectual person; a wimp; someone who cannot be depended on; an exceedingly pathetic, timid, or ineffectual person …1960s US sl.
– ZILCH an ordinary or completely dull, ineffectual, unattractive, or insignificant person; a person without much social or academic ability; a person of little consequence; a nobody; a socially inept outcast …1967 US sl.
ineffectual – verbs
– ABORTIVATE †* to render abortive; to render ineffectual or fruitless …c1630
– BUGGER ABOUT to lounge about; to waste time; to act ineffectually; to behave in a frivolous or stupid way …1937
– BUGGER AROUND to lounge about; to waste time; to act ineffectually; to behave in a frivolous or stupid way …1939
– FART AROUND to waste time; to do something ineffectually or inefficiently …Bk2006 US sl.
– FLOG A DEAD HORSE to expend effort ineffectually or futilely …1872
– FOOTLE to talk or act foolishly; to do anything in a feeble or ineffectual manner; to dawdle, to trifle, to potter; to idle, to waste time …1892 sl.
– PAUCHLE to work in an ineffectual way, to bungle, to potter, to trifle …1965 Sc.
– PISS AGAINST THE WIND to act ineffectually; to waste one’s time; to attempt something futile …1642 sl.
– PISS IN THE WIND to behave ineffectually; to waste one’s time, to attempt something futile …1970 sl.
– QUIGGER to work in something messy or in an ineffectual, messy or muddling way …1960 Sc.
ineffectual – phrases
– COULDN’T FART INTO A BOTTLE said of a hopeless, ineffectual person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– COULDN’T FIGHT HIS WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG said of a hopeless, ineffectual person …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– COULDN’T KNOCK THE SKIN OFF A RICE PUDDING physically weak; ineffectual …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
 
INEFFECTUALITY – nouns
– WUSSINESS weakness; ineffectuality …1980s Amer. sl.
 
INEFFECTUALLY – adverbs
– FECKLESSLY feebly, ineffectually; wretchedly …1862
– IMPERTINENTLY † to no purpose, with no effect …1614
– NOT FOR TOFFEE ineffectually, incompetently; used to denote incompetence …1914 sl.
 
INEFFICIENT – adjectives
– CLUNKY ponderous and inefficient …Bk2006 US sl.
– DANK inferior; inefficient …c1945 sl.
– DEEDLESS helpless, spiritless, inefficient …1876 Eng. dial.  
– GAVELESS awkward, clumsy, careless, inefficient …1866 Sc.
– GAVELLOUS awkward, clumsy, careless, inefficient …1866 Sc.
– HAYWIRE inadequately equipped, inefficient, makeshift …1905 Amer. sl. esp. logging
– POCHLIN awkward, inefficient, bungling …1949 Sc.
– SCAMPING badly or inefficiently done …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SCAMPY badly or inefficiently done …1897 Eng. dial.
– TRIFLING lazy, shiftless, inefficient, worthless, good-for-nothing …1832 Amer. dial.
inefficient – person
– DILLOCK an inefficient housewife …19C Eng. dial.
– LAME DUCK a lame or incapacitated person, or one who is old, weak, or ineffective; an invalid; hence, someone or something of no use or value; an inefficient person …1814 sl.
– MAFFLE-HORN an incapable, blundering, inefficient person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SLACK-ARSE a lazy, inefficient, negligent person; a shirker; an idler …1971 Aust. sl. 
inefficient – verbs
– FART AROUND to waste time; to do something ineffectually or inefficiently …Bk2006 US sl.
– SCLATCH, SKLATCH to perform any piece of work, such as building a house, in a clumsy, slovenly, inefficient manner …Bk1904 Sc.
– SHOW UP to make another person seem inefficient, ridiculous or inferior …Amer. colloq.
inefficient – phrases
– COULDN’T ORGANIZE A URINE SAMPLE IN A GOLDEN SHOWER used of an inefficient person or organization …2005 UK sl.
 
INEFFICIENTLY – adverbs
– FEEBLY † in a sorry manner or plight; inefficiently, insufficiently, niggardly, poorly, scantily …c1290