Synonyms for Effective:

• adj.

  •able (adjective)
  • savviest,
  • therer,
  • pre-pared,
  • more intelligent,
  • pre pared,
  • know ones onions,
  • know one onions,
  • know backwards forwards,
  • most capable,
  • up snuff,
  • know onions,
  • most efficient,
  • up speed,
  • more skilled,
  • powerful,
  • up it,
  • know ropes,
  • savvy,
  • more talented,
  • therest,
  • more efficient.
  •active (adjective)
  • in process,
  • Exertive,
  • in force,
  • walking,
  • shifting,
  • operating,
  • going,
  • in play,
  • at work,
  • swarming,
  • running.
  •all (adjective)
  • efficient,
  • effective.
  •authoritative (adjective)
  • potent,
  • consequential,
  • influential,
  • dictatorial,
  • imperious,
  • commanding,
  • masterful,
  • impressive,
  • authoritative,
  • autocratic,
  • authoritarian,
  • arrogant.
  •becoming (adjective)
  • more well-chosen,
  • most well-chosen,
  • more acceptable,
  • more well chosen,
  • neater,
  • more wellchosen,
  • be-coming,
  • most well chosen,
  • graceful,
  • more enhancing,
  • most wellchosen,
  • wellchosen,
  • most enhancing.
  •businesslike (adjective)
  • matter of fact,
  • disciplined,
  • workaday,
  • well-ordered,
  • matter-of-fact.
  •causative (adjective)
  • pivotal,
  • causal,
  • formative,
  • motivational,
  • generative,
  • causative,
  • germinal,
  • executive.
  •chief (adjective)
  • upper-most,
  • more telling,
  • para-mount,
  • most telling,
  • out standing,
  • grandest,
  • pre eminent,
  • para mount,
  • fore most,
  • fore-most,
  • superior,
  • stellar.
  •constructive (adjective)
  • most valuable.
  •dominant (adjective)
  • over-balancing,
  • more surpassing,
  • sur-passing,
  • more transcendent,
  • more prevalent,
  • most overbalancing,
  • more obtaining,
  • more predominate,
  • over weighing,
  • pre siding,
  • pre-vailing,
  • pre-siding,
  • most outweighing,
  • over balancing,
  • more overweighing,
  • most predominate,
  • most surpassing,
  • over-weighing,
  • over bearing,
  • pre-dominate,
  • more outweighing,
  • pre dominate,
  • most overweighing,
  • sur passing,
  • pre vailing,
  • more overbalancing,
  • most obtaining,
  • Over-bearing,
  • preponderant,
  • out weighing,
  • out-weighing,
  • sovereign,
  • prevailing.
  •dramatic (adjective)
  • Theatric,
  • suspenseful,
  • Histrionical,
  • farcical,
  • expressive,
  • tragicomic,
  • sensational.
  •dynamic (adjective)
  • most red blooded,
  • go getting,
  • red-blooded,
  • most gogetting,
  • in tense,
  • most red-blooded,
  • more go-getting,
  • strenuous,
  • more hyped up,
  • most gogetter,
  • more go getting,
  • most hypedup,
  • goahead,
  • gogetting,
  • more redblooded,
  • more go getter,
  • most go-getter,
  • more red-blooded,
  • more red blooded,
  • more gogetting,
  • more gogetter,
  • in-tensest,
  • most go getting,
  • coming strong,
  • most activating,
  • most go-getting,
  • more activating,
  • red blooded,
  • most hyped up,
  • gogetter,
  • go getter,
  • most hyped-up,
  • more hyped-up,
  • in-tense,
  • more hypedup,
  • hypedup,
  • most redblooded,
  • in tenser,
  • redblooded,
  • most go getter,
  • magnetic,
  • more go-getter,
  • vehement,
  • in-tenser.
  •effective (adjective)
  • resultant,
  • fruitful.
  •effectual (adjective)
  • most fulfilling,
  • most effecting,
  • most accomplishing,
  • more achieving,
  • de-terminative,
  • licit,
  • more fulfilling,
  • most achieving,
  • more effecting,
  • more accomplishing,
  • de terminative.
  •efficacious (adjective)
  • puissant.
  •elegant (adjective)
  • recherche,
  • ostentatious,
  • well-bred.
  •expedient (adjective)
  • fit,
  • tactical,
  • commodious,
  • desirable,
  • advantageous,
  • most desirable,
  • apt,
  • suitable,
  • accommodating,
  • convenient,
  • timely,
  • wisest,
  • opportune.
  •expeditious (adjective)
  • fleet.
  •flattering (adjective)
  • becoming.
  •forcible (adjective)
  • mightiest.
  •fruitful (adjective)
  • most well-spent,
  • more spawning,
  • wellspent,
  • more well spent,
  • more reproducing,
  • most blossoming,
  • more breeding,
  • more propagating,
  • most well spent,
  • pro-fuse,
  • re-warding,
  • re-producing,
  • more wellspent,
  • most reproducing,
  • more proliferant,
  • most childing,
  • most fructiferous,
  • most wellspent,
  • most spawning,
  • re warding,
  • more childing,
  • pro fuse,
  • most breeding,
  • well spent,
  • re producing,
  • more fructiferous,
  • more well-spent,
  • more blossoming,
  • profuse,
  • most proliferant,
  • most propagating,
  • co-pious,
  • co pious.
  •going (adjective)
  • rustest.
  •happy (adjective)
  • welltimed,
  • enviable,
  • be-fitting.
  •hard-hitting (adjective)
  • puissa,
  • bullish,
  • powerhouse.
  •high-powered (adjective)
  • in saddle,
  • high powered.
  •histrionical (adjective)
  • thest,
  • THER.
  •important (adjective)
  • top drawer,
  • of note,
  • high up,
  • famous,
  • incomparable,
  • high-level,
  • page-one,
  • upper-class,
  • top-drawer,
  • firstclass,
  • extra ordinary,
  • bigtime,
  • first class,
  • four-star,
  • front page,
  • front-page,
  • high-up.
  •imposing (adjective)
  • something write home about,
  • one for book,
  • over-whelming,
  • over blown,
  • over whelming,
  • most mega,
  • something to write home about,
  • over-blown,
  • mindblowing,
  • more mega,
  • mind blowing,
  • ex citing.
  •impressive (adjective)
  • welldone,
  • pro founder,
  • awe inspiring,
  • pro-found,
  • most well-done,
  • most well done,
  • more well done,
  • aweinspiring,
  • well done,
  • pro-founder,
  • ex cited,
  • in-spiring,
  • more well-done,
  • more welldone,
  • most welldone,
  • ex-cited,
  • in spiring,
  • well-done,
  • pro found.
  •infallible (adjective)
  • Undeceivable,
  • inerrable,
  • surefire,
  • inerrant,
  • apodictic.
  •in use at the time (adjective)
  • in execution,
  • current,
  • real.
  •live (adjective)
  • un-settled,
  • un settled.
  •operative (adjective)
  • re-levant,
  • re levant.
  •pithy (adjective)
  • most short-and-sweet,
  • epigrammatic,
  • more short and sweet,
  • most short and sweet,
  • more short-and-sweet,
  • down brass tacks,
  • most honed,
  • more honed.
  •positive (adjective)
  • forward-looking,
  • positive.
  •practical (adjective)
  • vetest,
  • Worldlywise.
  •predominant (adjective)
  • more directing,
  • holding the reins,
  • holding reins,
  • most allpowerful,
  • most directing,
  • pre dominant,
  • most all powerful,
  • allpowerful,
  • more all-powerful,
  • most all-powerful,
  • over powering,
  • pre-dominant,
  • more allpowerful,
  • over-powering,
  • more all powerful.
  •productive, persuasive (adjective)
  • sound,
  • on the ball,
  • energetic,
  • serving,
  • direct,
  • virtuous,
  • emphatic,
  • Producing,
  • convincing,
  • serviceable,
  • having lead in pencil,
  • playing hardball,
  • wicked.
  •proficient (adjective)
  • whizest,
  • most drilled,
  • on the beam,
  • most exercised,
  • most phenom,
  • most crackerjack,
  • whizer,
  • on beam,
  • more exercised,
  • more phenom,
  • more drilled,
  • more crackerjack.
  •profitable (adjective)
  • most sustaining,
  • most paying,
  • more well paying,
  • most well paying,
  • more sustaining,
  • in black,
  • most self sustaining,
  • selfsustaining,
  • well paying,
  • cost effective,
  • most well-paying,
  • most selfsustaining,
  • most self-sustaining,
  • more self sustaining,
  • most wellpaying,
  • self sustaining,
  • more wellpaying,
  • more self-sustaining,
  • wellpaying,
  • more well-paying,
  • more paying,
  • more selfsustaining,
  • costeffective.
  •quick (adjective)
  • smart as whip,
  • quick trigger,
  • quick,
  • more nimble-witted,
  • more nimble witted,
  • most nimble-witted,
  • quick on draw,
  • most nimble witted,
  • quick witted,
  • quickest,
  • quick uptake,
  • quick on uptake,
  • quick the trigger,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • nimble witted,
  • quick the uptake,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • quickwitted,
  • sharp as tack,
  • quick draw,
  • nimblewitted,
  • quick the draw.
  •responsible (adjective)
  • selfreliant,
  • self reliant.
  •smart (adjective)
  • skullest,
  • most eggheaded,
  • more genius,
  • skull,
  • smart,
  • longhaired,
  • skuller,
  • most genius,
  • long haired,
  • more longhaired,
  • most long haired,
  • more long haired,
  • more eggheaded,
  • most long-haired,
  • more long-haired,
  • most longhaired,
  • re sourceful.
  •strong (adjective)
  • clear cut,
  • unmixed,
  • highly flavored,
  • well-established,
  • well-founded,
  • strong-flavored,
  • highly seasoned.
  •trenchant (adjective)
  • the point,
  • razor-sharp,
  • to the point.
  •useful (adjective)
  • most utile,
  • most allpurpose,
  • most toward,
  • more purposive,
  • more all purpose,
  • most all-purpose,
  • more allpurpose,
  • all purpose,
  • most all purpose,
  • more utile,
  • of service,
  • more toward,
  • most purposive,
  • allpurpose,
  • utile,
  • more all-purpose.
  •utilitarian (adjective)
  • un-romantic,
  • un idealistic,
  • un-idealistic,
  • most unidealistic,
  • more unidealistic,
  • un romantic,
  • nuts bolts.
  •utilizable (adjective)
  • fitting,
  • appropriate,
  • multipurpose,
  • functional,
  • applied,
  • at hand,
  • employable,
  • beneficial,
  • helpful,
  • versatile,
  • available,
  • usable,
  • applicable,
  • instrumental,
  • practicable,
  • reusable,
  • utilizable,
  • handy.
  •vigorous (adjective)
  • strong as ox,
  • strong as an ox,
  • ball of fire,
  • hard-driving,
  • take charge,
  • take-charge,
  • take over,
  • take-over.
  •virtuous (adjective)
  • without reproach,
  • clean-living,
  • in the clear,
  • on up and up,
  • high-principled,
  • moralistic.
  •working (adjective)
  • on track,
  • in gear,
  • on the job,
  • in a job,
  • in full swing.

• n.

  •
  • forensic,
  • common-law,
  • enabling,
  • criminal,
  • civil.
  •
  • thrive.
  •
  • be better/worse off,
  • forceful.
  •
  • high-powered,
  • be.
  •
  • invalid.
  •actual (noun)
  • actual.
  •competent (noun)
  • competent.
  •effective (noun)
  • telling,
  • in effect,
  • rough-and-ready,
  • good,
  • existent,
  • operational,
  • impelling.
  •efficient (noun)
  • striking,
  • capable,
  • cogent,
  • producing the expected result,
  • yielding,
  • producing the desired result,
  • sufficient,
  • adequate,
  • compelling.
  •in force (noun)
  • force.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • well-oiled,
  • statutory,
  • driving,
  • conducive,
  • legislative,
  • invaluable,
  • extraterritorial,
  • time-saving,
  • judicial,
  • well-run,
  • proven,
  • on-stream,
  • juridical,
  • mandatory,
  • prescribed,
  • well-worn,
  • liable,
  • worthwhile,
  • undefended,
  • nifty,
  • antitrust,
  • functionally,
  • determining,
  • criminally,
  • deciding,
  • retrospective,
  • fateful,
  • out-of-court,
  • retroactive,
  • extrajudicial,
  • usefully,
  • law-making.
  •
  • online,
  • meaningful,
  • lapsed,
  • situated,
  • handily,
  • contributory,
  • moving,
  • unsteady,
  • valuable,
  • catalytic,
  • tailored,
  • purposeful,
  • operable,
  • effectively,
  • tasteless,
  • unique,
  • magisterial,
  • fecund,
  • unsustainable,
  • lawful,
  • dynamical,
  • general-purpose,
  • circumstantial.
  •
  • face to face,
  • sweetly,
  • unproven,
  • tailor-made,
  • through,
  • prolific,
  • valid,
  • undecided,
  • paradise,
  • priceless,
  • forcible,
  • fertile.
  •
  • unsettled,
  • deadly.
  •
  • worth,
  • juvenile,
  • void,
  • robust,
  • bad.
  •
  • wrong.
  •
  • smooth.
  •
  • off.
  •convincing
  • persuasive.
  •potent
  • Prepotent.

Paraphrases for Effective:

• Equivalence

  • Coordinating conjunction
    efficient.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    efficient.
  • Adjective
    efficient, efficacious, effectual.
  • Proper noun, singular
    efficient.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    efficient, efficacious.
  • Adverb
    efficient.
  • Verb, past tense
    efficient.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    efficient.
  • Verb, base form
    efficient.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    ineffective, cost-effectively.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fruitful, positive, strong, stronger, pro-active, satisfactory, profitable, feasible, impressive, high-efficiency, operative, reliable, expedient, significant, virtuous, optimal, sensible, Radiated, proactive, sufficient, veritable, time-tested, ineffectual, smooth.
  • Proper noun, singular
    objectives, vouchers, coupons, Its, bonds, targets, Goals, efficiencies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    servicemen, Guardsmen, proactive.
  • Verb, past tense
    Existed, Began, Introduced, included, Occurred, Relied, Worked, Totalling.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    depends, needs.

• Other Related

  • Coordinating conjunction
    effectiveness.
  • Determiner
    efficient.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    effectiveness.
  • Adjective
    effectiveness, viable, well-performing, potent, cost-efficient, influential, incisive, proficient, effect, energetic, operational, responsive, robust, decisive, tangible, instrumental, energy-efficient, realistic, functional, suitable, successful, well-established, functioning, aggressive, credible, intensive, streamlined, efficacy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    effectiveness, effect, successful, efficacy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    effectiveness, effect, functioning, efficacy.
  • Interjection
    efficient.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    effectiveness, efficacy.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    efficient.
  • Verb, base form
    effectiveness, effect, efficacy.

Antonyms for Effective:

• adj.

  • all
    ineffective.
  • in use at the time
    inactive.
  • productive, persuasive
    helpless, insufficient, fruitless, inadequate, unable, weak, inoperative, worthless, unsuccessful, inefficient, useless, unproductive, incompetent, impotent.
  • Other antonyms:
    made-up, legendary, conjectural, shaky, imaginary, invented, inconclusive, abstract, unskilled, hypothetical, irrelevant, invalid, unconvincing, pictured, ideal, inexpert, indecisive, inconsequential, assumed, visualized, pointless, platonic, imagined, romantic, unseasoned, unfruitful, unpersuasive, uncompelling, fictitious, unfounded, reputed, unqualified, incapable, fictional, hollow, nonoperational, idle, Inexistent, pretend, possible, insignificant, feeble, unsound, alleged, virtual, fanciful, immaterial, suppositional, theoretical, inexperienced, symbolic, supposed, nonexistent, fake, bootless, groundless, illusory, unskillful, fabled, conceived, fabricated, chimerical, envisioned.

Homophones for Effective:

• evocative.