taking effect

The phrase “taking effect” has 4 syllables: tak-ing ef-fect

It's pronounced as /ˈteɪkɪŋ ɪˈfɛkt/


What is synonym and antonym for taking effect?

In the thesaurus, “taking effect” has 15 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for taking effect

Antonyms for taking effect

Example Sentences

  • The new law is taking effect at the beginning of next year.
  • The medication started taking effect within half an hour of ingestion.
  • Changes in the company's policy will be taking effect immediately.
  • The revised schedule is taking effect from Monday onward.
  • The environmental regulations are taking effect to reduce pollution in the city.

On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to taking effect, such as: acting, affecting, backfiring, behaving, fizzling, influencing, operating.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

taking

  • Junoesque
  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
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  • adorable
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  • bonnie
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  • buying
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  • catching
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  • cherry-picking
  • chocolate-box
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • clasping
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  • comely
  • coming to grips with
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  • communicative
  • concluding
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  • contagious
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  • cunning
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  • doing down
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  • dollish
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  • elegant
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  • engineering
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  • espousing
  • esthetic
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  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • exceeding
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  • expansive
  • exquisite
  • eye-catching
  • failing
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • felling
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  • fellowshipping
  • fetching
  • fielding
  • financing
  • finessing
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  • fitting
  • fixing
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattening
  • flawless
  • flourishing
  • foxy
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • getting around
  • getting off
  • getting the better of
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • going
  • good
  • good-looking
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  • grasping
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  • guiding
  • hacking
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  • handsome
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • having
  • having a grip on
  • holding
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  • icing
  • inclosing
  • infectious
  • inferring
  • influencing
  • insisting
  • interesting
  • inviting
  • involving
  • jockeying
  • killing
  • killing off
  • knocking for a loop
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • knockout
  • lacking
  • languishing
  • laying hold of
  • licking
  • likely
  • living with
  • looker
  • lovely
  • lovesome
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  • making away with
  • managing
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  • manipulating
  • marking
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  • mastering
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  • nabbing
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  • necessitating
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  • nubile
  • obtaining
  • offering
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  • okaying
  • operating
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
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  • overpowering
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  • perfect
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  • pulling
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  • rubbing out
  • running
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  • seemly
  • seizing
  • selecting
  • setting
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • sexy
  • shellacking
  • shouldering
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  • sightly
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slick
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • snatching
  • snazzy
  • snowing under
  • snuffing
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • standing
  • standing for
  • statuesque
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stipulating
  • stomaching
  • stopping
  • striking
  • studly
  • stunning
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • suffering
  • suiciding
  • superb
  • supporting
  • supposing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • swaying
  • sweating out
  • sweeping
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking out
  • tantalizing
  • tapping
  • teasing
  • telegenic
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • thrashing
  • tolerating
  • toothsome
  • topping
  • toughing it out
  • transcending
  • transferable
  • transmittable
  • treating
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trusting
  • understanding
  • unseating
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

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