Effectively
[ɪ'fektɪvlɪ] or [ɪ'fɛktɪvli]
Definition
(adv.) in actuality or reality or fact; 'she is effectively his wife'; 'in effect, they had no choice'.
Editor: Moll--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.
Checker: Truman
Examples
- Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an experience develops most effectively and fruitfully. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The British used it effectively in the Boer War. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mrs. Garth had not again looked at Fred, and was not in the least calculating what words she should use to cut him the most effectively. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here were she, Mrs Lammle, and her husband discoursing at once affectingly and effectively, but discoursing alone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The sentiments of the head of the office being now so effectively made known, Mr. Stockdale soon learnt it by the return of two packets. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He could not even use words effectively enough to be a successful beggar. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Dorothea's voice, as she made this childlike picture of what she would do, might have been almost taken as a proof that she could do it effectively. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ability to share effectively in adult activities thus depends upon a prior training given with this end in view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This would effectively protect the fire-brick lining from the destructive effects of the heat. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But if he suggested that the number be reduced because seven men can deliberate more effectively than nine he ought to be given a hearing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Diving bells have been used very effectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The tyrant can use the taboo a thousand times more effectively than the citizens of a republic. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Various methods are used for this purpose, with the result that loading and firing can be very quickly and effectively performed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You could raid more effectively from there, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It would be self-evident that the question was how education could contribute most effectively to both. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And so he learned to shave--rudely and painfully, it is true--but, nevertheless, effectively. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When disease germs are within the body, the problem is far from simple, because chemicals which would effectively destroy the germs would be fatal to life itself. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- As this is an express, and as the boat runs in connection with it, I should think we have shaken him off very effectively. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Truman