effective

CEFRB1

/ɪˈfɛktɪv/

adjective

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adjective
Successful in producing the wanted result.
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adjective
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Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.

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"Capital idea; we'll go together and complain: two will be more effective," suggested Mr. Belting.
1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados
Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.
2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102
Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC
The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives, and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.
1876, Dabney Herndon Maury; Southern Historical Society Papers: Volume 2, Number 4, Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign

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From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“to make; to bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive.