more effective

ADJECTIVE

productive, persuasive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active adequate compelling competent direct efficient forceful impressive potent powerful practical sufficient useful valid

STRONG

effectual efficacious

WEAK

able capable cogent convincing emphatic energetic forcible having lead in pencil live moving on the ball operative playing hardball powerhouse producing resultant serviceable serving sound striking telling trenchant virtuous wicked yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

helpless impotent inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inefficient insufficient unable useless weak worthless

STRONG

unproductive unsuccessful

WEAK

fruitless inoperative

ADJECTIVE

in use at the time

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active direct dynamic

WEAK

actual current in effect in execution in force in operation operative real

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inactive

WEAK

fruitless impotent incapable ineffective inoperative unproductive useless weak

Example Sentences

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Campaigners are gathering data and testimonies until July, and plan to file a legal case seeking stronger heat protections and a more effective action plan.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Laws that more meaningfully protect privacy—not just for children but for everyone—would be far more effective and not involve invasive and dangerous data gathering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

Campaigners are planning to gather outside the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday to call for ministers to speed up the introduction of more effective MPAs.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

According to research published in the International Journal of Surgery in 2020, roughly 310 million major surgical procedures are performed worldwide each year, highlighting the need for safer and more effective pain-management options.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

Ne-kah-e-se-y would coolly draw his bow and arrow, which the Osage considered more effective than a bullet.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann