efficacity

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Efficient and effective
be firing on all cylindersidiom
businesslike
clockwork
come together
cut through something
developed
dispatch
ergonomic
ergonomically
ergonomics
high-functioning
hyper-efficient
seamless
seamlessly
smoothly
snappily
snappy
work wonders/miraclesidiom
workable
worth your saltidiom

Examples from literature

Caution is at least as efficacious a protection against him as courage. 
Many efforts were made for his release, the most efficacious by the Queen of France. 
Pieces of certain woods are believed efficacious for rheumatism, and old men especially may often be seen with them tied around the limbs. 
The penalty should certainly prove efficacious, he observed lightly. 
They resort to any and every agent which has been proved efficacious, whether it be vegetable or mineral. 

Examples of efficacious

efficacious
Similar approaches might be efficacious with respect to insect pests of agriculture.
Varenicline may be an efficacious, safe, and well-tolerated agent for maintaining abstinence from smoking.
If public works indicated efficacious and commendable governance, their disrepair was nothing short of an embarrassment.
Other omissions may have been intentional, as the holder of the text discarded a particular remedy as not being efficacious.
When redistributive pressures loom large, or when state elites are otherwise inclined to pursue economic growth, then authoritarianism is efficacious.
This knowledge gave researchers the means (dietary restriction of phenylalanine intake) and the critical time (ideally the first postnatal month) for efficacious treatment.
Its safe and efficacious use in humans is still being examined.
It is highly likely that this drug, added to standard therapy, would be as efficacious in older heart-failure patients.
After all, the supervenient properties are realized, and the realizers are causally efficacious.
The study suggests that this programme for prevention and treatment of post-partum depression is reasonably well-accepted and efficacious.
This uncertain, ambiguous realm is where the 'core' qualities of performance itself flourish: ephemeral, evanescent, refractory, ineffable, enduring, substantial, accessible, intelligible, efficacious, and so on.
It is appropriate to ask whether these antigens truly represent the spectrum of potentially efficacious antigens.
This suggests that physicians' efforts to discuss spiritual issues with their patients might be efficacious for depressive symptoms as well as providing other independent benefits.
These structural and cultural properties only become causally efficacious in relation to human projects in society.
In practice, the equipotency model (allowing all principal therapies to be viewed as comparably efficacious) promotes professionals treating patients according to their preferred treatment model.
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