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What is "effectual" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does effectual mean in English? Meaning of effectual definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "effectual" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "effectual": producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect

Adjective

  • Meaning: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: effective effectual efficacious
  • Antonyms: ineffective ineffectual uneffective
  • Similar: hard-hitting impelling impressive rough-and-ready telling trenchant
  • Also see: efficacious efficient potent powerful stiff strong useful utile

    • Meaning of "effectual": having legal efficacy or force

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having legal efficacy or force
  • Example: a sound title to the property
  • Synonyms: effectual legal sound
  • Similar: valid
  • Adjective: Producing the intended result; entirely adequate. 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3 Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetite of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance.1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3 Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetite of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance.

    • Synonyms:

    effective, efficacious, adequate, binding, capable, conclusive, decisive, efficient, forcible, lawful, legal, licit, potent, powerful, practicable, productive, qualified, serviceable, sound, strong, successful, telling, useful, valid, virtuous, workable, determinative, accomplishing, achieving, effecting, fulfilling, in force,

    Antonyms:

    incapable, unproductive, useless, impotent, ineffectual, unsuccessful, weak,

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