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Antonyms for efficaciously


Grammar : Adv
Spell : ef-i-key-shuh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛf ɪˈkeɪ ʃəs



Definition of efficaciously

Origin :
  • "sure to have the desired effect" (often of medicines), 1520s, from Latin efficaci-, stem of efficax (see efficacy) + -ous. Related: Efficaciously; efficaciousness.
  • As in effectively : adv efficiently
Example sentences :
  • Only one here can tell him efficaciously what he must hear, and that is Cayrol.
  • Extract from : « Serge Panine, Complete » by Georges Ohnet
  • Yet small as are the variations, they act most efficaciously on certain minds.
  • Extract from : « The Wandering Jew, Complete » by Eugene Sue
  • He learns to manage his genius more prudently and efficaciously.
  • Extract from : « Biographia Literaria » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Any generation that wants to can do well, but it must want to do efficaciously.
  • Extract from : « Education: How Old The New » by James J. Walsh
  • This I hinted to L——, and his own susceptibility had hinted it to him efficaciously before I spoke.
  • Extract from : « Leonora » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Nothing has contributed so efficaciously, for some years past, to the progress of the native English drama.
  • Extract from : « The English Stage » by Augustin Filon
  • Ivan felt but little inconvenience from his wound; the aged Hagar having treated it so efficaciously.
  • Extract from : « The Circassian Chief » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • We have not been able to preserve them efficaciously for the future, or to ruminate over them again and again.
  • Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England » by Georg Brandes
  • All the sartorial ingenuity of mankind has not yet succeeded in sewing an apron that will efficaciously hide our sense of shame.
  • Extract from : « Bushido, the Soul of Japan » by Inazo Nitob
  • It covertly but most efficaciously undermined the customs which it pretended merely to interpret.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Law » by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

Synonyms for efficaciously

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