Synonyms for efficacious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ef-i-key-shuh s |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛf ɪˈkeɪ ʃəs |
Top 10 synonyms for efficacious Other synonyms for the word efficacious
Définition of efficacious
Origin :- "sure to have the desired effect" (often of medicines), 1520s, from Latin efficaci-, stem of efficax (see efficacy) + -ous. Related: Efficaciously; efficaciousness.
- adj efficient, productive
- And some of the most efficacious burrowers have been their own spiritual children.
- Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Everyday influences, even the smallest and most dissimulated, are often the most efficacious.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Relics have served as efficacious instruments to accomplish that end.
- Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous
- Whatever the brew might be worth, the whisky certainly was efficacious.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Thunder Mountain » by Edfrid A. Bingham
- Efficacious as this mode of execution may seem, it was neither speedy nor merciful.
- Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe
- Dr. Owen will say that his prescription has been efficacious, but that is not true.
- Extract from : « Possessed » by Cleveland Moffett
- For the difficulty with the bladder we mentioned, diet is also efficacious.
- Extract from : « The Physical Life of Woman: » by Dr. George H Napheys
- And when I say learn, I mean learn in the least official and the most efficacious way.
- Extract from : « Laurus Nobilis » by Vernon Lee
- He had a most efficacious method of administering consolation.
- Extract from : « My Ten Years' Imprisonment » by Silvio Pellico
- The necessity of efficacious grace for effective action is a point of faith.
- Extract from : « Pascal » by John Tulloch
Antonyms for efficacious
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