Efficacious

/ˌɛf.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/ · adjective

Meaning

(formal) Effective; possessing efficacy..

Example Sentences

This medicine is efficacious.

For, that the ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would ſoon ſtop the pores of it, if the ſweat were not furniſht with ſome efficacious diſſolvent to open and pierce them.

"I see," said he, with a smile, "that you, like myself, are trying the effect of this sweet evening for the headach. I have already found it very efficacious, and so, I think, have you,"—again smiling, as he noticed the deep blush which his sudden appearance had produced.

He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.

The unquenchable American moralism and the American faith in violence are not just twin symptoms of some character neurosis taking the form of a protracted adolescence, which presages an eventual maturity. They constitute a full-grown, firmly installed national psychosis, founded, as are all psychoses, on the efficacious denial of reality.

By the end of the tenth century, Edith's humility had inspired a cult of holy wells in Kent, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire. Their waters were deemed efficacious for eye conditions.

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• more efficacious
• most efficacious

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