- effective
- adj.1 producing the result you wantVERBS▪ be, look, prove, seem▪ make sth▪ find sth▪
We find advertising on the radio very effective.
ADVERB▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.▪ enormously, especially, extraordinarily, highly, incredibly, remarkably, tremendously▪a highly effective technique
▪ completely, fully, totally, truly▪ especially, particularly▪ moderately, partially, reasonably▪ equally▪ generally▪The drug is generally effective in reducing pain.
▪ increasingly▪ surprisingly▪ consistently▪ enough▪This method is effective enough with greenfly.
▪ not sufficiently▪ immediately▪ potentially▪ devastatingly, powerfully▪Sneezes are devastatingly effective at spreading infection.
▪ politically▪What makes a speech politically effective?
PREPOSITION▪ at▪effective at keeping out the wind
▪ in▪effective in helping people to stop smoking
2 of laws/rulesVERBS▪ be▪ become▪ remainADVERB▪ fully▪ partially▪ directly, immediately▪directly effective treaty provisions
▪ legallyEffective is used with these nouns: ↑action, ↑administration, ↑advocate, ↑agent, ↑aid, ↑alternative, ↑answer, ↑antibiotic, ↑antidote, ↑barrier, ↑birth control, ↑blockade, ↑camouflage, ↑campaign, ↑campaigner, ↑challenge, ↑change, ↑channel, ↑collaboration, ↑communication, ↑contraception, ↑contraceptive, ↑control, ↑cooperation, ↑coordination, ↑counter, ↑counter-attack, ↑critique, ↑cure, ↑date, ↑defence, ↑delegation, ↑deployment, ↑deterrent, ↑diplomacy, ↑discipline, ↑drug, ↑enforcement, ↑engagement, ↑execution, ↑exercise, ↑exploitation, ↑expression, ↑implementation, ↑instrument, ↑intervention, ↑leader, ↑leadership, ↑learning, ↑legislation, ↑liaison, ↑management, ↑marketing, ↑means, ↑measure, ↑mechanism, ↑method, ↑mode, ↑monopoly, ↑operation, ↑opposition, ↑organization, ↑participation, ↑partnership, ↑piece, ↑ploy, ↑policy, ↑presentation, ↑protection, ↑reform, ↑remedy, ↑removal, ↑representation, ↑resistance, ↑resolution, ↑response, ↑ruler, ↑safeguard, ↑sanction, ↑solution, ↑strategy, ↑supervision, ↑system, ↑teaching, ↑teamwork, ↑technique, ↑tool, ↑treatment, ↑use, ↑vaccine, ↑veto, ↑way, ↑weapon, ↑writing
Collocations dictionary. 2013.