effectual

The word “effectual” has 4 syllables: ef-fec-tu-al

It's pronounced as /ɪˈfɛktʃuəl/


What is synonym and antonym for effectual?

In the thesaurus, “effectual” has 65 synonyms and 31 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for effectual along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for effectual

Antonyms for effectual

  • abortive
  • bootless
  • counterproductive
  • empty
  • fruitless
  • futile
  • hollow
  • idle
  • impotent
  • incapable
  • incompetent
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • inefficient
  • inexperienced
  • inexpert
  • inoperative
  • pointless
  • unavailing
  • unfruitful
  • unproductive
  • unprofitable
  • unqualified
  • unseasoned
  • unskilled
  • unskillful
  • unsuccessful
  • useless
  • vain
  • weak
  • worthless

Meanings of effectual

  • adjective
    1. Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.

Example Sentences

  • The new safety measures proved effectual in reducing workplace accidents.
  • His diplomatic skills were effectual in resolving the conflict peacefully.
  • The lawyer presented an effectual argument that swayed the jury in his client's favor.
  • Effective communication is essential, but it must also be effectual in achieving desired outcomes.
  • They implemented an effectual strategy to increase customer retention and loyalty.

On this page you'll find 96 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to effectual, such as: abortive, accomplished, accomplishing, achieving, active, adept, adequate.

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ultraefficient

paid off

  • abased
  • advantageous
  • allured
  • assisting
  • baited
  • balanced
  • beguiled
  • beneficial
  • bought
  • bribed
  • cleared
  • commercial
  • conducive
  • contributive
  • corrupted
  • cost-effective
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • depraved
  • discharged
  • dishonored
  • effective
  • effectual
  • enticed
  • fat
  • favorable
  • fixed
  • flattered
  • footed
  • fruitful
  • gainful
  • generous
  • goaded
  • going
  • going concern
  • good
  • got at
  • greased the hand of
  • greased the palm of
  • had
  • in the black
  • induced
  • instrumental
  • led on
  • liquidated
  • lucrative
  • lured
  • lush
  • met
  • moneymaking
  • motivated
  • oiled the hand of
  • oiled the palm of
  • paid
  • paid up
  • paying
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  • persuaded
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  • poisoned
  • ponied up
  • practical
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  • productive
  • profaned
  • prostituted
  • provoked
  • quit
  • quitted
  • recompensed
  • remunerative
  • rewarding
  • rich
  • satisfied
  • satisfying
  • seduced
  • self-sustaining
  • serviceable
  • settled
  • snared
  • spurred
  • squared
  • stimulated
  • stood
  • substantial
  • subverted
  • successful
  • sustaining
  • sweet
  • tainted
  • tempted
  • trapped
  • useful
  • valuable
  • warped
  • well-paying
  • worthwhile

quick

  • ASAP
  • a mile a minute
  • a move on
  • able
  • abrupt
  • abruptly
  • accelerated
  • accurate
  • active
  • acute
  • adept
  • adroit
  • agile
  • alacritous
  • alert
  • alive
  • all there
  • animate
  • animated
  • apace
  • apt
  • astute
  • at full throttle
  • at full tilt
  • at speed
  • belly
  • big
  • blistering
  • blood
  • bosom
  • brainy
  • breakneck
  • breast
  • breathing
  • breathless
  • breathtaking
  • brief
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • briskly
  • brooding
  • by leaps and bounds
  • canny
  • capable
  • caught
  • cerebral
  • childbearing
  • chop-chop
  • clear
  • clever
  • competent
  • conceiving
  • conscience
  • core
  • crafty
  • creative
  • cunning
  • current
  • cursory
  • curt
  • deft
  • delicate
  • dexterous
  • discerning
  • dizzy
  • double-quick
  • double-time
  • dynamic
  • eager
  • educated
  • effective
  • effectual
  • enceinte
  • energetic
  • energetically
  • erudite
  • exceptional
  • existent
  • existing
  • expectant
  • expecting
  • expeditious
  • expeditive
  • express
  • extant
  • fast
  • fine
  • fleet
  • fleet-footed
  • fleetly
  • flying
  • foxy
  • full tilt
  • galloping
  • genial
  • gestational
  • going
  • gone
  • good
  • gravid
  • gut
  • hair-trigger
  • harefooted
  • hastened
  • hastily
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heady
  • heart
  • heartstrings
  • heavy
  • hell-for-leather
  • high-speed
  • highbrow
  • hit-and-run
  • hot
  • hurried
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immediate
  • immediately
  • impatient
  • impetuous
  • impetuously
  • impregnated
  • impulsively
  • in a hurry
  • in short order
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • inner space
  • inside
  • insightful
  • instant
  • instantaneous
  • intelligent
  • inventive
  • judicious
  • keen
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • lickety-split
  • lightning
  • like a shot
  • like gangbusters
  • like wildfire
  • literate
  • live
  • lively
  • living
  • logical
  • mercurial
  • mind
  • move it
  • nimble
  • nimble-witted
  • nippy
  • on the ball
  • on the double
  • oversensitive
  • parturient
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfunctory
  • perspicacious
  • piercing
  • posthaste
  • precise
  • pregnant
  • prenatal
  • presto
  • prevailing
  • prompt
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • prudent
  • quick on the draw
  • quick on the trigger
  • quick on the uptake
  • quick-witted
  • quickened
  • quickly
  • rapid
  • rapid-fire
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • rational
  • rattling
  • readily
  • ready
  • ready-witted
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • recklessly
  • resourceful
  • responsive
  • resurrected
  • rush
  • rushed
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • shrewd
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • slick
  • smart
  • smart as a whip
  • snappily
  • snappy
  • soon
  • soul
  • sound
  • speedily
  • speedy
  • spirited
  • split-second
  • splitting
  • sprightly
  • spry
  • strenuous
  • strong
  • subtle
  • sudden
  • suddenly
  • summary
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • surviving
  • swift
  • swiftly
  • the lead out
  • thriving
  • trained
  • ultrafast
  • ultrarapid
  • ultrasmart
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • vigorously
  • vital
  • vivacious
  • well-read
  • whirlwind
  • whiz
  • willing
  • wily
  • winged
  • wired
  • wise
  • with child
  • with young
  • zippy

educated

  • able
  • academic
  • academical
  • accomplished
  • ace
  • acquainted with
  • adept
  • adroit
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • bettered
  • bookish
  • brainy
  • briefed
  • capable
  • catechized
  • cerebral
  • civilized
  • clever
  • coached
  • competent
  • compleat
  • complete
  • consummate
  • corrected
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • deft
  • developed
  • dexterous
  • dextrous
  • didactic
  • didactical
  • directed
  • drilled
  • edified
  • effective
  • effectual
  • efficient
  • elevated
  • employable
  • enlightened
  • ennobled
  • enriched
  • ensouled
  • erudite
  • exalted
  • experienced
  • expert
  • familiarized
  • finished
  • fit
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  • formed
  • gifted
  • glorified
  • good
  • great
  • grounded
  • guided
  • habile
  • habilitated
  • handy
  • highbrow
  • highbrowed
  • homeschooled
  • illumed
  • illuminated
  • illumined
  • implanted
  • improved
  • inculcated
  • indoctrinated
  • informed
  • initiated
  • inkhorn
  • inspired
  • instilled
  • instructed
  • intellectual
  • intelligent
  • introduced
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • lectured
  • led
  • lessoned
  • lettered
  • lifted
  • literary
  • literate
  • long-term
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • mentored
  • moralized
  • multiskilled
  • multitalented
  • nurtured
  • old
  • overeducated
  • pedantic
  • polished
  • polyhistoric
  • polymath
  • polymathic
  • practiced
  • practised
  • preached
  • prepared
  • primed
  • professed
  • professional
  • professorial
  • proficient
  • qualified
  • reared
  • reeducated
  • refined
  • regenerated
  • renewed
  • reschooled
  • retaught
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  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scientific
  • self-educated
  • self-instructed
  • self-taught
  • shaped
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  • skilled
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  • slick
  • sure-handed
  • talented
  • tasteful
  • taught
  • trained
  • transfigured
  • transformed
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  • versed
  • versed in
  • veteran
  • virtuoso
  • well-bred
  • well-informed
  • well-read
  • well-rounded
  • well-taught
  • well-versed
  • workmanlike

effective

  • able
  • absolute
  • accomplished
  • active
  • actual
  • adept
  • adequate
  • applicable
  • attested
  • authentic
  • authenticated
  • authoritative
  • believable
  • big-wheel
  • bona fide
  • capable
  • certain
  • certifiable
  • certified
  • cogent
  • compelling
  • competent
  • conclusive
  • concrete
  • confirmed
  • consummate
  • convincing
  • current
  • de facto
  • decisive
  • definitive
  • demonstrated
  • direct
  • dynamic
  • effectual
  • efficacious
  • efficient
  • emphatic
  • energetic
  • established
  • existent
  • experienced
  • expert
  • factual
  • feasible
  • final
  • forceful
  • forcible
  • fruitful
  • functional
  • genuine
  • hard
  • having lead in pencil
  • hyperefficient
  • important
  • impressive
  • in effect
  • in execution
  • in force
  • in operation
  • incontestable
  • incontrovertible
  • indisputable
  • indubitable
  • inescapable
  • irrefutable
  • killer
  • literal
  • live
  • masterly
  • material
  • moving
  • objective
  • on the ball
  • operative
  • palpable
  • persuasive
  • pertinent
  • playing hardball
  • positive
  • potent
  • powerful
  • powerhouse
  • practicable
  • practical
  • practiced
  • practised
  • producing
  • productive
  • proficient
  • proven
  • real
  • real-life
  • real-world
  • realistic
  • realizable
  • relevant
  • resultant
  • satisfying
  • serviceable
  • serving
  • significant
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • sound
  • striking
  • strong
  • substantial
  • substantiated
  • successful
  • sure-enough
  • tangible
  • telling
  • trenchant
  • true
  • ultraefficient
  • undeniable
  • unmistakable
  • unquestionable
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • valid
  • validated
  • verifiable
  • verified
  • versed
  • very
  • veteran
  • virtuoso
  • virtuous
  • weighty
  • well-founded
  • wicked
  • workable
  • working
  • yielding

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