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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Scottish English
Origin: feck 'effect, larger part', from effect

feckless

 adjective
     
feck‧less
lacking determination, and not achieving anything in your life:
Alice's feckless younger brother
—fecklessly adverb
—fecklessness noun [uncountable]
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