effectively
English
Etymology
effective + -ly
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈfɛktɪvli/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: ef‧fec‧tive‧ly
Adverb
effectively (comparative more effectively, superlative most effectively)
- In an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:
- The nightclubs generally provide liquor (at a price), pretty girls who are clad diaphanously but extremely effectively, a tiny space in which to dance [...] and food[.]
- 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
- A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.
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- Essentially, in effect, for all practical purposes.
- 2012 March 1, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 112-3:
- A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
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Translations
in an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect
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essentially
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