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Crucial vs Effective - What's the difference?

crucial | effective |

As adjectives the difference between crucial and effective

is that crucial is being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important while effective is having the power to produce a required effect or effects.

As a noun effective is

a soldier fit for duty.

crucial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-07, author= Nicole Vulser
    • , volume=190, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies , passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial , but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
  • (label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
  • Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.

    • Derived terms

    * crucial experiment

    Related terms

    * cross * crux

    References

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    effective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
    • The pill is an effective method of birth control.
  • Producing a decided or decisive effect.
    • The president delivered an effective speech!
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Whosoever is an effective , real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
  • Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
    • How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
    My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
    The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
    The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
  • Actually in effect.
    • The curfew is effective at midnight.
  • Having no negative coefficients.

    • Related terms

    * effect * effectivity * effectual * efficacious * efficacity * efficacy * efficiency * efficient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A soldier fit for duty.
  • *1876 , , 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.
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