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say it: FEH-klis
feckless is an adjective meaning "not fit to assume responsibility". It carries 2 recorded senses.
not fit to assume responsibility
generally incompetent and ineffectual
“feckless attempts to repair the plumbing”
“inept handling of the account”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for feckless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.