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Effective

adjective

Producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect. Synonyms: effectual, efficacious. "Effective teaching methods" , "Effective steps toward peace" , "Made an effective entrance" , "His complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action" , "An efficacious law" Antonym: ineffective.

Able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively. Synonym: efficient. "Effective personnel" , "An efficient secretary" , "The efficient cause of the revolution"

Works well as a means or remedy. "A lotion that is effective in cases of prickly heat"

Exerting force or influence. Synonyms: good, in effect, in force. "A warranty good for two years" , "The law is already in effect (or in force)"

Existing in fact; not theoretical; real. "Confused increased equipment and expenditure with the quantity of effective work done"

Ready for service.

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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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