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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

"As our understanding of these compounds grows, there is a real opportunity to make dietary guidance more specific and more effective."

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Tehran’s offensive capacity has proved more effective than the combined aerial defense of the Gulf kingdoms and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

CAR T cells lacking the protein were more effective at controlling tumors and helped extend survival.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

Word of mouth is a more effective method of advertisement than typeset words and exclamation points on paper pamphlets or posters.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern