EFFICACIOUS Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster Among its synonyms are the familiar adjectives effective and efficient Efficacious is more formal than either of these; it’s often encountered in medical writing where it describes treatments, therapies, and drugs that produce their desired and intended effects in patients
Efficacious - definition of efficacious by The Free Dictionary efficacious (ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs) adj capable of or successful in producing an intended result; effective as a means, remedy, etc [C16: from Latin efficāx powerful, efficient, from efficere to achieve; see effect]
EFFICACIOUS Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com EFFICACIOUS definition: capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc See examples of efficacious used in a sentence
efficacious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Adjective efficacious (comparative more efficacious, superlative most efficacious) (formal) Effective; possessing efficacy [from 1520s] Synonym: effective Antonym: inefficacious This medicine is efficacious
Efficacious Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary Britannica Dictionary definition of EFFICACIOUS [more efficacious; most efficacious] formal : having the power to produce a desired result or effect : effective an efficacious remedy