more effective

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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

“This sort of pressure can work, and I have seen it be more effective than actual sanctions,” said Bitsoff, the former Treasury official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

A credit aimed narrowly at post-production work currently being done elsewhere would be more effective, Button said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

He wants the government to help local miners establish safer and more effective ways of finding and extracting the gold.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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

Maybe the training he’d been given had been more effective than he’d thought.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz