Effective vs Effectively - What's the difference?
effective | effectively |
Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
Producing a decided or decisive effect.
* Jeremy Taylor
Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
Actually in effect.
Having no negative coefficients.
(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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In an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 19
, author=Kerry Brown
, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
, work=The Guardian
Essentially, in effect, for all practical purposes.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title=Opening Doors
, volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3
, magazine=
As an adjective effective
is having the power to produce a required effect or effects.As a noun effective
is a soldier fit for duty.As an adverb effectively is
in an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.effective
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The pill is an effective method of birth control.
- The president delivered an effective speech!
- Whosoever is an effective , real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
- 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.
- The curfew is effective at midnight.
Noun
(en noun)effectively
English
Adverb
(en adverb)citation, page= , passage=A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.}}
citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}