Definitions for efficacious

efficacious ef·fi·ca·cious

Spelling: [ef-i-key-shuh s]
IPA: /ˌɛf ɪˈkeɪ ʃəs/

Efficacious is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 283 anagrams from letters in efficacious (acceffiiosu).

Definitions for efficacious

adjective

  1. capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.:

Origin of efficacious

1520-30; Latin efficāci- (stem of efficāx) effectual. See efficient, -acious

Examples for efficacious

For the difficulty with the bladder we mentioned, diet is also efficacious.

I asked him if he thought cattle cars would be an efficacious means of transporting the Palestinians to their new homes.

He had a most efficacious method of administering consolation.

And some of the most efficacious burrowers have been their own spiritual children.

Relics have served as efficacious instruments to accomplish that end.

Everyday influences, even the smallest and most dissimulated, are often the most efficacious.

Whatever the brew might be worth, the whisky certainly was efficacious.

Dr. Owen will say that his prescription has been efficacious, but that is not true.

And when I say learn, I mean learn in the least official and the most efficacious way.

efficacious as this mode of execution may seem, it was neither speedy nor merciful.

Word Value for efficacious
Scrable

21

Words with friends

24

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