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productive, persuasive adj.
in use at the time adj.

ADJECTIVE

productive, persuasive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active adequate compelling competent direct efficient forceful impressive potent powerful practical sufficient useful valid

STRONG

effectual efficacious

WEAK

able capable cogent convincing emphatic energetic forcible having lead in pencil live moving on the ball operative playing hardball powerhouse producing resultant serviceable serving sound striking telling trenchant virtuous wicked yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

helpless impotent inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inefficient insufficient unable useless weak worthless

STRONG

unproductive unsuccessful

WEAK

fruitless inoperative

ADJECTIVE

in use at the time

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active direct dynamic

WEAK

actual current in effect in execution in force in operation operative real

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inactive

WEAK

fruitless impotent incapable ineffective inoperative unproductive useless weak

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more effective

French police tactics are becoming more effective in stopping small boats in the English Channel from reaching Britain, the Home Office has said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

But the government rejects the criticism, arguing that it has invested in ground-based resources, which it says are more effective, and purchased helicopters for water-bombing operations, with deliveries of the aircraft under way.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Pitching coach Red Adams convinced him that precision location and ball movement were more effective than raw speed and John went 11-5 the following season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The findings may help scientists develop obesity treatments that are more effective and potentially work better in combination.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

Boynton and Edson, however, believed their medicinal remedies were safer and more effective.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow