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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Efficacious \Ef`fi*ca"cious\, a. [L. eficax -acis, fr efficere See {Effect}, n.] Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as an efficacious law. Syn: See {Effectual}. -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly}, adv -- {Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: efficacious adj 1: marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: {inefficacious}] 2: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: {effective}, {effectual}] [ant: {ineffective}]
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