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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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There was little to suggest the shape - never used by Enzo Maresca during his 18‑month spell in charge - would prove effective.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Treatments that prove effective in people could be tested in cats, and insights from veterinary trials could help guide human clinical research.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

For those unaware of Richter’s composition, this needle drop will likely prove effective; it is, at the end of the day, a stunning piece of music.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

Whether these warnings will be duplicated or prove effective remains to be seen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

Jenkins thought I might prove effective as a kind of herald for John Kwang.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee