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effective

/ɪˈfɛktɪv/

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What does effective mean?

adjective

  1. Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
  2. Producing a decided or decisive effect.
  3. Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
More meanings (5)

adjective

  1. Actually in effect.
  2. Having no negative coefficients.
  3. Such that no group element acts trivially.
  4. approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.

noun

  1. a soldier fit for duty

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IPA pronunciation

/ɪˈfɛktɪv/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈifɛktɪv/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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When expressed with some amount of reflectiveness it seems co-ordinate with a belief that this flattery must be reasonable to be effective.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
I am not sure that my embarrassment was not the most effective part of my speech, if speech it could be called.
Frederick DouglassMy Bondage and My FreedomProject Gutenberg ebook #202
More book examples (3)
Persons who would not confess were tied up and put to a sort of torture which was effective in securing new revelations.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
Fortunately for Maximilian, he detected the conspiracy in time enough to anticipate and prevent it by the most rapid and effective measures.
Friedrich SchillerThe History of the Thirty Years' WarTranslated by A. J. W. (Alexander James William) MorrisonProject Gutenberg ebook #566
A moving object, particularly when its oscillations are irregular and incalculable, is an extremely difficult object at which to take effective aim.
Frederick Arthur Ambrose TalbotAeroplanes and Dirigibles of WarProject Gutenberg ebook #793