efficacious

[Ef`fi*ca·cious]

When you really want to do something right, really nail it, really get at what you were going for you're trying to be efficacious, or produce the effect you intended.

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Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

Adjective
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 towar

Adjective
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"


n.
Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.


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. -- Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness, n.

Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

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Usage Examples

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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Other Usage Examples

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

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