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more effective

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

Example Sentences

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Aid returning to Ituri with Ebola-specific funding would be more effective if public health aid simply hadn’t left in the first place.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

One area missing from the analysis: innovation in more-efficient procedures, the kind of thing that can make companies more effective in less obvious ways, Wartzman says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Both companies have said that the majority of the new prescriptions are for new users of GLP-1s, not people switching from the more effective and expensive injections.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026

Now, researchers have demonstrated a striking new approach that could make this process far more effective.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Yet to prevent cancer from ever being formed is “definitely more humane” and can be “much more effective than cancer cures.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson