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What is the adjective for effective?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs effect, effectuate and effectivate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

effective
  1. Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
  2. Producing a decided or decisive effect.
  3. Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
  4. Actually in effect.
  5. Existing as fact without formal acknowledgment.
  6. Describing someone who is highly useful or skilled at a particular task.
  7. Having a persuasive effect.
  8. Being in a healthy and functional state.
  9. (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “Paracetamol is an effective medication for relieving pain.”
      “The speaker's words were highly effective in motivating the crowd to take action.”
      “The ban on flammable liquids will be effective next Monday.”
effectful
  1. Synonym of effectual
  2. (computing) Implementing effects.
effectual
  1. Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “How they will be saved from starvation is a problem to which it is to be hoped an effectual solution will be soon obtained.”
      “We may reasonably conclude that if an agreement of this kind was not made effectual by law, other agreements would not be more privileged.”
      “The Commissioner of Stamp Duties accepted, on the basis that these documents were effectual, that there was no duty assessable.”
effectless
  1. Having no effect or advantage.
effecting
effectory
  1. (biology) Of or pertaining to an effector
effectuall
  1. Obsolete form of effectual.
effected
effectuous
  1. (obsolete) effective
effectuated
effectuating
effectivated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of effectivate
effectivating
  1. present participle of effectivate
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