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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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In turn, that knowledge could support the development of more effective dietary approaches for preventing and managing type 2 diabetes.

From Science Daily • Jun. 22, 2026

While still not constant pressure from their possession in the second half, the graph below is evidence that Scotland were much more effective in the latter stages of the game as an attacking entity.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026

It appears to be a more effective solution than the gallons of hydrogen peroxide that were dumped in the pool earlier this week.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2026

A mix of new weapons could also prove more effective, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

But the resistance of employers only raises a second and ultimately more intractable question: Why isn’t this resistance met by more effective counterpressure from the workers themselves?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich