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efficacious
adjective as in effective, productive
Example Sentences
In a paper published in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers outline a new framework for understanding how antidepressants are efficacious in treating MDD.
“If something was to be made available and shown to be efficacious and safe, I think there would be wide use of it,” Jonker says.
The low dose was a little more than 65% efficacious in both cases.
The authors note that gadolinium has not been tested in humans and has not been deemed to be safe or efficacious.
Figuring out which drugs to stop temporarily requires further consultations while the time for efficacious use of Paxlovid dwindles, he said.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say efficacious?
The adjective efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Efficient (applied also to persons) implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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