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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective effectual has 2 senses
- effectual(a = adj.all) effective, efficacious - producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" Derived forms noun effectuality1, noun effectualness1
- effectual(s = adj.all) legal, sound - having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
effectual, adj.
1 capable of producing the required result or effect; answering its purpose.
2 valid.
1 capable of producing the required result or effect; answering its purpose.
2 valid.
Derivative
effectuality n. effectually adv. effectualness n.
Etymology
ME f. med.L effectualis (as EFFECT)
THESAURUS
effectual
able, achieving, active, actual, adequate, ascertained, attested, authenticated, authoritative, banausic, behind the scenes, binding, capable, categorically true, causal, causative, certain, certified, charismatic, charming, competent, conclusive, confirmed, consequential, constitutive, corroborated, decisive, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documentary, effective, efficacious, efficient, enchanting, equal to, established, estimable, etiological, factual, feasible, forceful, forcible, formative, fulfilling, functional, go, historical, important, in force, influential, institutive, lawful, legal, magnetic, momentous, not in error, objectively true, occasional, operable, operational, operative, originative, personable, persuasive, pivotal, potent, powerful, practicable, practical, pragmatic, prestigious, productive, proficient, proved, real, realizable, reputable, sound, strong, suasive, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, telling, toothy, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, up to, useful, valid, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, weighty, winning, workableROGET THESAURUS
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Utility
N utility, usefulness, efficacy, efficiency, adequacy, service, use, stead, avail, help, applicability, subservience, function, value, worth, money's worth, productiveness, cui bono, utilization, step in the right direction, common weal, commonwealth public good, public interest, utilitarianism, useful, of use, serviceable, proficuous, good for, subservient, conducive, subsidiary, advantageous, profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt, valuable, prolific, adequate, efficient, efficacious, effective, effectual, expedient, applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible, commodious, adaptable, of all work, usefully, pro bono publico.Power
N power, potency, potentiality, jiva, puissance, might, force, energy, dint, right hand, right arm, ascendency, sway, control, prepotency, prepollence, almightiness, omnipotence, authority, strength, ability, ableness, competency, efficacy, efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill), validity, cogency, enablement, vantage ground, influence, pressure, conductivity, elasticity, gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism, atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power, fuel cell, hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power, solar power, solar energy, solar panels, tidal power, wind power, attraction, vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva, potential energy, dynamic energy, dynamic friction, dynamic suction, live circuit, live rail, live wire, capability, capacity, quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent, faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility, powerful, puissant, potential, capable, able, equal to, up to, cogent, valid, efficient, productive, effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent, multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent, almighty, forcible, (energetic), influential, productive, powerfully, by virtue of, by dint of, a toute force, dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen, eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis, fortis cadere cedere non potest.Agency
N agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke, operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon, by the agency of through, by means of, I myself must mix with action lest I wither by des.
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