Effective
[ɪ'fektɪv] or [ɪ'fɛktɪv]
Definition
(adj.) existing in fact; not theoretical; real; 'a decline in the effective demand'; 'confused increased equipment and expenditure with the quantity of effective work done' .
(adj.) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; 'people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons...'-G.B.Shaw; 'effective personnel'; 'an efficient secretary'; 'the efficient cause of the revolution' .
(adj.) exerting force or influence; 'the law is effective immediately'; 'a warranty good for two years'; 'the law is already in effect (or in force)' .
(adj.) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; 'an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation'-LewisMumford; 'effective teaching methods'; 'effective steps toward peace'; 'made an effective entrance'; 'his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action'; 'an efficacious law' .
(adj.) works well as a means or remedy; 'an effective reprimand'; 'a lotion that is effective in cases of prickly heat' .
(adj.) ready for service; 'the fort was held by about 100 effective soldiers' .
Typed by Harley--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.
(n.) That which produces a given effect; a cause.
(n.) One who is capable of active service.
(n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Competent, adequate, powerful, forcible, energetic, potent, cogent, sufficient, efficacious.[2]. Operative, active, efficient, effectual.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Powerful, conducive, operative, cogent, telling, able, potent, talented,efficacious, efficient, serviceable, effectual
ANT:Weak, ineffective, inconducive, inoperative, futile, nugatory
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Examples
- But this decisive victory was the most effective campaign argument made in the canvass. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If a man drew up a will which he did not intend ever to be effective, he might do it so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In his place has come the factory hand, nearly all footwear being now a product of machinery, and this of greatly varied and effective character. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The part thus played in dialogue by Mr. Horrock was terribly effective. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Still more effective is the fact that unless an individual acts in the way current in his group, he is literally out of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Even if all students were embryonic scientific specialists, it is questionable whether this is the most effective procedure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I don't suppose they are so effective, Gino said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was soon streaming blood from a half dozen minor wounds, but I could not obtain an opening to deliver an effective thrust. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But the stronger the current through the coil, the stronger will be the force tending to rotate the coil, and hence the less effective will be the hindrance of the twisting string. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They could not see how the mere occupation of places was to close the war while large and effective rebel armies existed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- During the war the Germans were especially active in the use of the submarine, and did much in making them an effective terror of the seas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The day is closing in and the gas is lighted, but is not yet fully effective, for it is not quite dark. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was now too close upon me for the cudgel to prove of any effective assistance, so I merely threw it as heavily as I could at his advancing bulk. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A stone slung might kill a bird or even a man, but it was not very effective against big game. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An effective apparatus of this kind, such as has been adopted by the United States Government for the use of the Bureau of Mines Rescue Crew, is shown in the accompanying illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was a prosaic way of forming a friendship, but it was effective. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- That's no good, he said confidently; they can't get the muzzle low enough to be effective. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Certainly nothing so effective in the art of politics can be left out of the equipment of the statesman. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hence, England was constantly finding fault with the administration at Washington because we were not able to keep up an effective blockade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It thus appears from the experiment that any person can construct as good and effective grenades as those offered in the market at $7 and $10 per dozen. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Those mentioned above are but fair examples of the persistent and effective work he has done to bring the phonograph to its present state of perfection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- According to your last return, this would give you a force of over thirty thousand effective men with which to move against Mobile. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The needle gun was invented by Dreyse in 1838, was first introduced about 1846, and gave effective service in the Prusso-Austrian war of 1866. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was impossible for the English, therefore, to exert any effective supervision and control over the company's proceedings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Never again after this quaint failure did Mecca make an effective rally against Muhammad, and one by one its leading men came over to his side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It must have been a pretty effective barrier between the Aryan speakers and the people in north-eastern Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Used for a purpose, the imitative instinct may, like any other instinct, become a factor in the development of effective action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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