<b><font size="4">"efficacious"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: <a href="/">inefficacious</a>] </li> <li>producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: <a href="../effective.html">effective</a>, <a href="../effectual.html">effectual</a>] [ant: <a href="/">ineffective</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../efficacious.html">http://www.word.sc/efficacious</a>

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