Word Meanings - EFFECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no
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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. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them. Bacon. Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Efficient; forcible; active; powerful; energetic; competent. See Effectual.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EFFECTIVE)
- Able
- Strong
- powerful
- clever
- skillful
- talented
- capable
- fitted
- efficient
- effective
- learned
- gifted
- masterly
- telling
- nervous
- vigorous
- Imposing
- Striking
- dignified
- grand
- impressive
- majestic
- august
- commanding
- Potent
- Powerful
- efficacious
- active
- strong
- energetic
- Telling
- Effective
- pointed
Related words: (words related to EFFECTIVE)
- SKILLFUL
1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, - IMPOSABLE
Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond. - GRANDEUR
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. - TALENT
tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination - GRANDEESHIP
The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
A grand mother. - TELLER
1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - GRANDUNCLE
father's or mother's uncle. - GIFTEDNESS
The state of being gifted. Echard. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - IMPOSINGNESS
The quality of being imposing. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - LEARN
linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf. - STRONGYLOID
Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n. - IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller. - TELLABLE
Capable of being told. - GRANDIFIC
Making great. Bailey. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - PATELLULA
A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects. - INCAPABLE
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit - EQUIPOTENTIAL
Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential. - INEFFICIENT
1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; - SCUTELLUM
A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - OMNIPOTENT
1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power - RETELL
To tell again. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - HALF-LEARNED
Imperfectly learned.