About The Word Effectual
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Effectual
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What's The Definition Of Effectual?
[adj] 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"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law"
[adj] sufficient to produce a result; "a man to whom painting was but another and less effectual way of writing dramas or novels or history" [adj] exerting or capable of exerting strong physiological or chemical effects; "an effectual vaccine" Synonyms | Synonyms for Effectual: effective | efficacious | hard-hitting | impelling | impressive | rough-and-ready | telling | trenchant Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | workable See Also | effectual | efficient | potent | powerful | strong | useful | utile Effectual In Webster's Dictionary \Ef*fec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [See {Effect}, n.]
Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an
intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.
--Shak.
Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion.
--Macaulay.
{Effectual calling} (Theol.), a doctrine concerning the work
of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and
acceptance of salvation by Christ, -- one of the five
points of Calvinism. See {Calvinism}.
Syn: {Effectual}, {Efficacious}, {Effective}.
Usage: An efficacious remedy is had recourse to, and proves
effective if it does decided good, effectual if it
does all the good desired. --C. J. Smith.
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