What is another word for effective?
698 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɪfˈɛktɪv], [ ɪfˈɛktɪv], [ ɪ_f_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for effective:- able (adjective)
- active (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- authoritative (adjective)
- becoming (adjective)
- businesslike (adjective)
- causative (adjective)
- chief (adjective)
- constructive (adjective)
- dominant (adjective)
- dramatic (adjective)
- dynamic (adjective)
- effective (adjective)
- effectual (adjective)
- efficacious (adjective)
- elegant (adjective)
- expedient (adjective)
- expeditious (adjective)
- flattering (adjective)
- forcible (adjective)
- fruitful (adjective)
- going (adjective)
- happy (adjective)
- hard-hitting (adjective)
- high-powered (adjective)
- histrionical (adjective)
- important (adjective)
- imposing (adjective)
- impressive (adjective)
- infallible (adjective)
- in use at the time (adjective)
- live (adjective)
- operative (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pithy (adjective)
- positive (adjective)
- practical (adjective)
- predominant (adjective)
- productive, persuasive (adjective)
- proficient (adjective)
- profitable (adjective)
- quick (adjective)
- responsible (adjective)
- smart (adjective)
- strong (adjective)
- trenchant (adjective)
- useful (adjective)
- utilitarian (adjective)
- utilizable (adjective)
- vigorous (adjective)
- virtuous (adjective)
- working (adjective)
- actual (noun)
- competent (noun)
- effective (noun)
- efficient (noun)
- in force (noun)
- other synonyms
- convincing
- potent
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.
- in process,
- Exertive,
- in force,
- walking,
- shifting,
- operating,
- going,
- in play,
- at work,
- swarming,
- running.
- potent,
- consequential,
- influential,
- dictatorial,
- imperious,
- commanding,
- masterful,
- impressive,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- authoritarian,
- arrogant.
- 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.
- upper-most,
- more telling,
- para-mount,
- most telling,
- out standing,
- grandest,
- pre eminent,
- para mount,
- fore most,
- fore-most,
- superior,
- stellar.
- 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.
- 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.
- most fulfilling,
- most effecting,
- most accomplishing,
- more achieving,
- de-terminative,
- licit,
- more fulfilling,
- most achieving,
- more effecting,
- more accomplishing,
- de terminative.
- fit,
- tactical,
- commodious,
- desirable,
- advantageous,
- most desirable,
- apt,
- suitable,
- accommodating,
- convenient,
- timely,
- wisest,
- opportune.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- profitable,
- nimble-witted,
- up to it,
- expeditious,
- overbalancing,
- vigorous,
- dynamic,
- constructive,
- well timed,
- know backwards and forwards,
- quick on the trigger,
- up to snuff,
- practical,
- quick on the uptake,
- well-spent,
- all-powerful,
- play hard ball,
- imposing,
- effectual,
- hard-hitting,
- The,
- go-getting,
- unidealistic,
- smart as a whip,
- expedient,
- Childing,
- quick on trigger,
- out-standing,
- Mega,
- be coming,
- dramatic,
- businesslike,
- self-sustaining,
- of assistance,
- hyped up,
- pithy,
- there,
- proliferant,
- overweighing,
- well-paying,
- productive,
- sharp as a tack,
- quick on the draw,
- all-purpose,
- well-chosen,
- paid off,
- know one's onions,
- proficient,
- pre-eminent,
- one for the book,
- paying well,
- Marrowy,
- phenom,
- in the saddle,
- worldly wise,
- equal to,
- long-haired,
- trenchant,
- down to brass tacks,
- live,
- up to speed,
- useful,
- elegant,
- play for keeps,
- fructiferous,
- operative,
- working,
- all there,
- highpowered,
- well chosen,
- chief,
- something else,
- active,
- utilitarian,
- ruster,
- infallible,
- able,
- in operation,
- vet,
- happy,
- providential,
- upper most,
- eggheaded,
- coming on strong,
- of use,
- VETER,
- dominant,
- important,
- in control,
- efficacious,
- predominant,
- strong,
- responsible,
- short-and-sweet,
- be fitting,
- purposive,
- hyped-up.
- most short-and-sweet,
- epigrammatic,
- more short and sweet,
- most short and sweet,
- more short-and-sweet,
- down brass tacks,
- most honed,
- more honed.
- 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.
- sound,
- on the ball,
- energetic,
- serving,
- direct,
- virtuous,
- emphatic,
- Producing,
- convincing,
- serviceable,
- having lead in pencil,
- playing hardball,
- wicked.
- whizest,
- most drilled,
- on the beam,
- most exercised,
- most phenom,
- most crackerjack,
- whizer,
- on beam,
- more exercised,
- more phenom,
- more drilled,
- more crackerjack.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- clear cut,
- unmixed,
- highly flavored,
- well-established,
- well-founded,
- strong-flavored,
- highly seasoned.
- 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.
- un-romantic,
- un idealistic,
- un-idealistic,
- most unidealistic,
- more unidealistic,
- un romantic,
- nuts bolts.
- fitting,
- appropriate,
- multipurpose,
- functional,
- applied,
- at hand,
- employable,
- beneficial,
- helpful,
- versatile,
- available,
- usable,
- applicable,
- instrumental,
- practicable,
- reusable,
- utilizable,
- handy.
n.
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- forensic,
- common-law,
- enabling,
- criminal,
- civil.
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- thrive.
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- high-powered,
- be.
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- invalid.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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•
- online,
- meaningful,
- lapsed,
- situated,
- handily,
- contributory,
- moving,
- unsteady,
- valuable,
- catalytic,
- tailored,
- purposeful,
- operable,
- effectively,
- tasteless,
- unique,
- magisterial,
- fecund,
- unsustainable,
- lawful,
- dynamical,
- general-purpose,
- circumstantial.
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•
- face to face,
- sweetly,
- unproven,
- tailor-made,
- through,
- prolific,
- valid,
- undecided,
- paradise,
- priceless,
- forcible,
- fertile.
-
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- wrong.
-
•
- smooth.
-
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- off.
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Equivalence
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Coordinating conjunction
efficient.
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
efficient.
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Adjective
efficient, efficacious, effectual.
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Proper noun, singular
efficient.
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Noun, singular or mass
efficient, efficacious.
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Adverb
efficient.
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Verb, past tense
efficient.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
efficient.
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Verb, base form
efficient.
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Coordinating conjunction
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
ineffective, cost-effectively.
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Adjective
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Independent
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
objectives, vouchers, coupons, Its, bonds, targets, Goals, efficiencies.
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Noun, singular or mass
servicemen, Guardsmen, proactive.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
are.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Coordinating conjunction
effectiveness.
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Determiner
efficient.
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
effectiveness.
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
effectiveness, effect, successful, efficacy.
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Noun, singular or mass
effectiveness, effect, functioning, efficacy.
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Interjection
efficient.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
effectiveness, efficacy.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
efficient.
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Verb, base form
effectiveness, effect, efficacy.
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Coordinating conjunction
Antonyms for Effective:
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adj.
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all
ineffective.
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in use at the time
inactive.
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productive, persuasive
helpless, insufficient, fruitless, inadequate, unable, weak, inoperative, worthless, unsuccessful, inefficient, useless, unproductive, incompetent, impotent.
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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.
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