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/ɪfˈɛktɪv/ /ˈifɛktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Effective adj. 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." "Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal."

Synonyms: Efficient; forcible; active; powerful; energetic; competent. See Effectual.

noun

Effective n.

That which produces a given effect; a cause.

One who is capable of active service. "He assembled his army 20,000 effectives at Corinth."

(Com.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; a term used in many parts of Europe.

The serviceable soldiers in a country; an army or any military body, collectively; as, France's effective.

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Etymology of 'Effective'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Most effective skin-purifying and beautifying soap in the world, as well as purest and sweetest of toilet and nursery soaps. The only medicated *Toilet* soap, and the only preventive and cure of facial and baby blemishes, because the only preventive of inflammation ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various

... certain kind of smoke was exceedingly offensive to the nostrils of your ordinary ghost. With this smoke the sick room would be filled until the ghost vanished or the patient died. It was also believed that certain words, when properly pronounced, were the most effective weapons, for it was for a long time supposed that Latin words were the best, I suppose because Latin was a dead language. For thousands of years medicine consisted in driving the devils out of men. In some instances bargains and promises were made with the ghosts. One case is given ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... to make himself necessary, he proposed his universal and permanent patrols and dragoons. He caused certain excesses to be committed in order to raise a cry of disorder; and a measure which could have been effective without ceasing to be paternal became, in his hands, ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... those plagues of our furs and clothes. To keep away these wholesale ravages, people generally use camphor, naphthalene, tobacco, bunches of lavender and other strong-scented remedies. Without wishing to malign those preservatives, we are bound to admit that the means employed are none too effective. The smell does very little to prevent ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... This proved so effective that they fell back, running out as fast as they came in, and my father took advantage of the lull to have a few pieces of furniture dragged forward, and laid upon the heap of refuse so as to give us a better ...

— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn

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