I.act. doing nothing, ineffectual, unprofitable, Il., Dem.
2.of persons, without success, unsuccessful, ἄπρηκτος νέεσθαι, Lat. re infecta, Il.; and in Prose, ἄπρ. ἀπιέναι, ἀπελθεῖν, ἀποχωρεῖν Thuc.; ἄπρ. γίγνεσθαι to gain nothing, id=Thuc.; ἄπρακτον ἀποπέμπειν τινά id=Thuc.:—adv. -τως, unsuccessfully, id=Thuc.
II.pass. against which nothing can be done, impracticable, Od.
2.not to be done, impossible, Theogn.
3.not done, left undone, Xen.