effective – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of effective

Adjective: effective

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore effective
Superlativemost effective

Sample Sentences

  • The pill is an effective method of birth control.
  • "Capital idea; we'll go together and complain: two will be more effective," suggested Mr. Belting. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
  • Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them. [2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102:]
  • The president delivered an effective speech!
  • Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal. [1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:]
  • How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
  • My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
  • The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
  • The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
  • effective immediately
  • The curfew is effective at midnight.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Italic *eks
6. Latin ex
7. Latin ex-
8. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
12. Proto-Italic *θakjō
13. Proto-Italic *fakjō
14. Latin faciō
15. Latin efficiō
16. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
17. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
18. Latin -īvus
19. Latin effectīvusbor.
20. French effectifder.
21. English effective
22. From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“to make; to bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive. See: French Adjectives 'effectif', Latin Adjectives 'effectīvus'.