Found 3 items, similar to Efficacious.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: efficacious
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: efficacious
efficacious
adj 1: marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended
effect;
“written propaganda is less efficacious than
the habits and prejudices...of the readers”-Aldous
Huxley;
“the medicine is efficacious in stopping a
cough” [ant:
inefficacious]
2: producing or capable of producing an intended result or
having a striking effect;
“an air-cooled motor was more
effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid
long-distance transportation”-LewisMumford;
“effective
teaching methods”;
“effective steps toward peace”;
“made
an effective entrance”;
“his complaint proved to be
effectual in bringing action”;
“an efficacious law” [syn:
effective,
effectual] [ant:
ineffective]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Efficacious
Efficacious
\Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax, -acis, fr.
efficere. See
Effect, n.]
Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or
powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious
law.
Syn: See
Effectual. --
Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly, adv.
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