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Synonyms and Antonyms: Effective
Effect, n. See Consequence. -v.-(see Achieve) produce, bring about, execute, realize. Effective (see Robust)-efficient, operative, powerful, efficacious, competent, adequate, valid, potent. (Impotent, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, disqualified, pithless, shiftless.) Efficacy-efficiency, virtue, validity, competence, potency, energy, agency, instrumentality. Efficient. See Effective.
Eliminate-expel, weed, thin, decimate, exclude, bar, reject, repudiate, winnow, eject, cast out, proscribe. (Include, comprehend, contain, incorporate, embrace, implicate.) Eloquence-oratory, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, facundity, fluency, gift of the golden mouth. (Mumbling, stammering, humming-and-hawing). Elucidate-clear up, unfold, expound, annotate, simplify, explain, decipher, unravel, disentangle. (Darken, obscure, mystify, confound.) Elude (see Evade) -escape, avoid, shun, slip, disappear, shirk. Embarrass-(see Elucidate) perplex, entangle, involve, encumber, ravel, impede. (Extricate, relieve, disembarrass, unravel.) Embellish-(see Blemish) - adorn, decorate, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, gild, bedight, emblazon. (Tarnish, disfigure, stain.) Embolden (see Intimidate)-inspirit, animate, encourage, cheer, instigate, impel, urge, stimulate. (Discourage, dispirit, dampen, depress.) Eminent high, elevated, exalted, lofty, prominent, distinguished, renowned, famous, glorious, illustrious. (Base, obscure, low, unknown.) Emit-send out, despatch, secrete, spirt, give out, utter, publish, promulgate, edit. (Reserve, conceal, hide.) Emotion-feeling, sensation, pathos, nerve, agitation, ardor, excitement. (Apathy, frigidity, phlegm, nonchalance.) Employ-occupy, engage, utilize, exercise, exploit, turn to account, make use of. Employment. See Business.
Encompass-encircle, surround, gird, beset, environ, besiege, enclose, hem in. Encounter, v.-meet, run against, hustle, clash, collide. -n.-attack, conflict, assault, onset, engagement, action, battle. Encourage. See Embolden.
End, n.-object, aim, result, purpose, conclusion, upshot, termination, close. (Beginning, motive.) Endeavor, v. attempt, try, essay, strive, struggle, persevere, persist. Endurance-stay, persistence, continuance, stability, stamina, patience, fortitude. (Variableness, changeableness, instability, weakness.) Endure-sustain, bear, brook, undergo.