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effectively

Word definitions for effectively in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in an effective manner; "these are real problems that can be dealt with most effectively by rational discussion" [syn: efficaciously ] [ant: inefficaciously , inefficaciously ] in actuality or reality or fact; "she is effectively his wife"; "in effect, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effectively \Ef*fect"ive*ly\, adv. With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "actually," from effective + -ly (2). From c.1600 as "as a means of producing;" from 1825 as "so as to produce an effect."

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES communicate effectively ▪ A teacher must be able to communicate effectively to students. deal with sth effectively ▪ Most schools don't deal with the problem of bullying very effectively. effectively convey sth ▪ The ...

Usage examples of effectively.

The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.

It is only now, some eighteen years later, that increasing numbers of experts are beginning to realize that it is the psychological state of the individual addict that counts and not the substance itself My accumulated knowledge of drug addiction comes from eighteen years of dealing with and answering effectively the questions and worries of the addicted.

The Anointed had helped him, but only out of the basest of motives, and never as openly or effectively as John might have liked.

It is this air of distastefulness that, intentionally or otherwise, has effectively detracted from the true significance of the anointing of Jesus.

They were its first occupants, and it would be some time before all this aseptic newness had been converted into a warm, human home, The children, doubtless, would catalyze the process rather effectively.

Lady Rhys could badger as effectively long distance as she could in person, but nobody badgered Janet, not really.

I cannot feel any confidence that the Germans will be prevented from occupying the Baku oilfields, or that the Russians will effectively destroy these fields.

The only thing we have it in our power to do is to base four or five heavy bombing squadrons in Northern Persia to aid the Russians in the defence of the Caucasus, if that be possible, and if the worst happens to bomb the Baku oilfields effectively and try to set the ground alight.

There was no barbican, but the entire area between the walls was effectively a killing ground.

He effectively excluded them beche wished to be taught by us, not volunteers- and as Dan had told me those many months ago, Stuart had an uncanny knack for getting to a person.

Boke--and was disgusted when he discovered that the individual who must be Boke was effectively disguised by a flying suit and a muffler tied across his features.

When he was not toiling at the cuckoo-clock factory, most of his spare time was spent either in his workshop or at the public library poring laboriously over treatises on genetics, cytology, cytogenetics, biochemistry, and any number of other subjects he did not understand-but which his subconscious absorbed very effectively indeed.

Before it could reactindeed, if it could have effectively reacted at all in its debilitated statethe banestone struck it square on the forehead.

The Labour Party had no guts, the pinks were defeatist, the Communists effectively pro-Nazi, and in any case there did not exist on the Left one single man of really nationwide reputation.

It seemed the demon could not dematerialize very effectively in a world where everything was already immaterial.