different between effective vs inefficacious
effective
English
Etymology
From French effectif, from Latin effect?vus (“productive; effective”), from effici? (“I make; I bring about”).
Pronunciation
- (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /??f?kt?v/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /??f?kt?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
effective (comparative more effective, superlative most effective)
- Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
- Synonym: efficacious
- Producing a decided or decisive effect.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
- Actually in effect.
- (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
- (physics, for any effective theory) approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
Usage notes
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary from 1913 still lists efficient and effective as synonyms, but all major dictionaries now show that these words now only have different meanings in careful use. Use of both for the other meaning is however widespread enough that Longman's Exam Dictionary, for example, finds it necessary to proscribe the use of one for the other with several examples at each entry and provides the following summary:
- efficient = working quickly and without waste
- effective = having the desired effect
Related terms
Translations
Noun
effective (plural effectives)
- (military) a soldier fit for duty
- 1876, Dabney Herndon Maury, Southern Historical Society Papers: Volume 2, Number 4, Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign:
- The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives, and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.
- 1876, Dabney Herndon Maury, Southern Historical Society Papers: Volume 2, Number 4, Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.f?k.tiv/
- Homophone: effectives
Adjective
effective
- feminine singular of effectif
Latin
Adjective
effect?ve
- vocative masculine singular of effect?vus
effective From the web:
- what effective against fairy
- what effective mean
- what effectively ended reconstruction
- what effective is the covid vaccine
- what effective against rock
- what effective against bug
- what effective date means
- what effective against steel pokemon
inefficacious
English
Etymology
in- +? efficacious
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???s
Adjective
inefficacious (comparative more inefficacious, superlative most inefficacious)
- Incapable of having the intended consequence.
- Not effective.
Synonyms
- ineffective
inefficacious From the web:
- what efficacious means
- what does efficacious mean
- what does inefficacious
- what does efficacious mean in english
- what is inefficacious in law
- what does efficacious
- what does efficacious mean in religion
- what does efficacious mean in the bible
you may also like
- effective vs inefficacious
- ineffective vs inefficacious
- efficaciously vs effectively
- effectual vs noneffectual
- effectual vs canine
- ineffectual vs fit
- effectual vs mraidjs
- effectual vs salutary
- effectuall vs taxonomy
- effectual vs taxonomy
- effectual vs virtuous
- ineffectual vs taxonomy
- effectivity vs taxonomy
- ability vs effectivity
- measure vs effectivity
- effector vs efaproxiral
- effector vs effectory
- effector vs taxonomy
- effectors vs recepter
- effecters vs effectors