Word Meanings - EFFECTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , a doctrine concerning the work of the

Additional info about word: EFFECTUAL

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 , 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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EFFECTUAL)

• Effective
• Powerful
• conducive
• operative
• cogent
• telling
• able
• potent
• talented
• efficacious
• efficient
• serviceable
• effectual
• Fruitful
• Productive
• prolific
• pregnant
• fraught
• causative
• useful
• successful
• fertile
• abundant
• plenteous
• fecund
• plentiful

Related words: (words related to EFFECTUAL)

• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• FRAUGHTAGE
  Freight; loading; cargo. Shak.
• TELLABLE
  Capable of being told.
• TELLURIAN
  Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey.
• TELLEN
  Any species of Tellina.
• PROLIFICATION
  Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
• FECUNDIFY
  To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.
• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• CONDUCIVENESS
  The quality of conducing.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• TELLURIZE
  To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
• TELLURIC
  Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric
• POTENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
• POTENTIALLY
  1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
• ABUNDANTLY
  In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• RETELL
  To tell again.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• ROSTELLAR
  Pertaining to a rostellum.
• AUTOFECUNDATION
  Self-impregnation. Darwin.
• PATELLAR
  Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• STELLED
  Firmly placed or fixed. "The stelled fires" . Shak.
• INEFFICACIOUSLY
  without efficacy or effect.
• INTERSTELLAR
  Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.