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单词 efficacious
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Definition of efficacious in English:

efficacious

adjective ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəsˌɛfəˈkeɪʃəs
formal
  • (of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.

    this treatment was efficacious in some cases
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Second, proving that a supposedly life extending drug will be efficacious is an extremely difficult task.
    • History and theory show that the use of naked government aggression is not a moral or efficacious way of dealing with poverty.
    • When contemporary arts are produced for an international market, they can still be efficacious.
    • We want to know that what we do is not merely efficacious but right.
    • It will prove efficacious to plant trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the autumn because they will get their roots down faster during their first wet winter.
    • The ultimately most efficacious way is to change a group belief is from within.
    • The use of allogenic tissue in orthopaedic surgery is generally safe and efficacious.
    • Both drugs were equally efficacious in improving auditory hallucinations and suspiciousness.
    • It may not mean that the ultimate result is not efficacious.
    • This process has resulted in the designation of many psychotherapy treatments as being efficacious.
    • During this era, biological discovery is accelerating, resulting in the development of safer and more efficacious drugs.
    • Most of these drugs are efficacious and have enormously enhanced the power of the physician to treat and cure disease.
    • So the same event or object can have a number of properties, not all of which are efficacious in bringing about the same effect.
    • There may be occasions, for instance, when a dose of old-fashioned common sense can be as efficacious as a more sophisticated remedy.
    • Clinical trials are in progress and research is ongoing for developing a safe and efficacious vaccine against the disease.
    • The vaccine was presumed to be safe and efficacious.
    • These drugs may be used topically or systemically and are safe and efficacious.
    • A small comparison study demonstrated that these two drugs are equally efficacious.
    • This brings us to another question: are we using our existing personnel in the most efficient and efficacious way?
    • No difference was noted concerning one tradition being more powerful or efficacious than any other.
    Synonyms
    successful, effectual, productive, constructive, fruitful, functional, potent, powerful
    effective, successful, effectual, productive, constructive, fruitful, potent, powerful

Derivatives

  • efficaciously

  • adverbˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəsliˌɛfəˈkeɪʃəsli
    formal
    • The police may permit individuals to donate DNA samples at their local laboratory, thereby maximizing compliance and assuring that the procedures are conducted safely and efficaciously.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The efforts were directed at acquainting students with HIV and risk, encouraging them to assess their individual risk, and then teaching them how to efficaciously reduce or avoid that risk.
      • Some of these interpretations suggest that the new laws may not efficaciously exclude appeals based on natural justice.
      • Recent literature suggests that gamma radiation can be efficaciously employed to sterilize allograft material without a deleterious clinical effect.
      • Our policy has always been to get rid of the student loan scheme altogether, and, failing that, to reduce its negative impacts as quickly and efficaciously as possible.
  • efficaciousness

  • nounɛfɪˈkeɪʃəsnəsˌɛfəˈkeɪʃəsnəs
    formal
    • Stating that the first big downpour is usually a test to check the efficaciousness of the drainage system, he said it had helped the department to gauge the problem areas in the city.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Clinicians simply avoided them because accepted theories of disease mechanism and drug action offered no explanation for their efficaciousness.
      • Obviously some weapon systems are more effective than others, but the efficaciousness of air defence measures depend basically on the gap between the technological/industrial investment and output of the competing sides.
      • Where he differs is in his claims about power and its alleged efficaciousness in bringing about ‘knowledge’.
      • Are you questioning whether these acts have any efficaciousness?

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin efficax, efficac- (from efficere 'accomplish': see effect) + -ious.

Rhymes

Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious
 
 

Definition of efficacious in US English:

efficacious

adjectiveˌɛfəˈkeɪʃəsˌefəˈkāSHəs
formal
  • (of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.

    the vaccine has proved both efficacious and safe
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When contemporary arts are produced for an international market, they can still be efficacious.
    • Clinical trials are in progress and research is ongoing for developing a safe and efficacious vaccine against the disease.
    • Most of these drugs are efficacious and have enormously enhanced the power of the physician to treat and cure disease.
    • Both drugs were equally efficacious in improving auditory hallucinations and suspiciousness.
    • A small comparison study demonstrated that these two drugs are equally efficacious.
    • It may not mean that the ultimate result is not efficacious.
    • It will prove efficacious to plant trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the autumn because they will get their roots down faster during their first wet winter.
    • We want to know that what we do is not merely efficacious but right.
    • Second, proving that a supposedly life extending drug will be efficacious is an extremely difficult task.
    • The vaccine was presumed to be safe and efficacious.
    • The use of allogenic tissue in orthopaedic surgery is generally safe and efficacious.
    • This process has resulted in the designation of many psychotherapy treatments as being efficacious.
    • No difference was noted concerning one tradition being more powerful or efficacious than any other.
    • History and theory show that the use of naked government aggression is not a moral or efficacious way of dealing with poverty.
    • During this era, biological discovery is accelerating, resulting in the development of safer and more efficacious drugs.
    • These drugs may be used topically or systemically and are safe and efficacious.
    • So the same event or object can have a number of properties, not all of which are efficacious in bringing about the same effect.
    • The ultimately most efficacious way is to change a group belief is from within.
    • This brings us to another question: are we using our existing personnel in the most efficient and efficacious way?
    • There may be occasions, for instance, when a dose of old-fashioned common sense can be as efficacious as a more sophisticated remedy.
    Synonyms
    successful, effectual, productive, constructive, fruitful, functional, potent, powerful
    effective, successful, effectual, productive, constructive, fruitful, potent, powerful

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin efficax, efficac- (from efficere ‘accomplish’: see effect)+ -ious.

 
 
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