effectual

Examples

• All

• The medication proved to be effectual, successfully alleviating her symptoms within just a few days.

• The scriptures furnish the best principles of civil liberty and the most effectual support of republican government.

  Academic text (1998)

• I believe you have taken such effectual measures that you will not be surprised.

  Blog text (29)

• But will he be as effectual up here with our people, as he is down there with London folk?

  Peterloo (2018)

• A reason mighty, strong, and effectual.

  Titus (1999)

• But the precautions that have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration promise an effectual security against this mischief.

  Blog text (11)

• Julia sat in her gazebo, shut her eyes, and pondered her creation: this effectual woman whose every act was intentional.

  Fiction book (1994)

• First, the availability of the militia would diminish the need for the federal government to establish an army: "As the greatest danger to liberty is from large standing armies, it is best to prevent them by an effectual provision for a good militia."

  Academic text (2000)

• The new training program was effectual in improving employee productivity across the board.

• His effectual leadership style helped the team reach their goals more efficiently than ever before.

Synonyms

E

effective

vseffectual

986 3.1

Produces the intended result, for example a speech or medicine

is used when an action actually brings about the desired outcome

E

efficacious

vseffectual

• Formal

7 8.6

Able to produce the desired result

is about producing the desired outcome in practice rather than potential

Antonyms

I

ineffective

90 3.4

Not working well enough to give the wanted result

I

ineffectual

18 6.8

Not able to produce the result wanted

How Effective

potent

119 5.5

efficacious

• Formal

7 8.6

effectual

1 6.8

helpful

689 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology