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effect

noun

1 the effect of these changes is hard to assess:

result, consequence, upshot, outcome, out-turn, sequel, reaction, repercussions, reverberations, ramifications;

end result, conclusion, termination, culmination, denouement, corollary, concomitant, aftermath, footprint, fruit(s), product, by-product;

Medicine sequelae;

informal pay-off;

dated issue;

archaic success.

▷antonyms cause.

2 the effect of this drug can be long-lasting:

impact, action, effectiveness, efficacy, efficaciousness, influence;

power, potency, strength, usefulness, success.

3 with effect from tomorrow:

force, operation, enforcement, implementation, execution, action, effectiveness;

validity, lawfulness, legality, legitimacy, authenticity, legal acceptability.

4 he said ‘See you later’, or words to that effect:

sense, meaning, theme, drift, thread, import, purport, intent, intention, burden, thrust, tenor, significance, message;

gist, essence, substance, spirit;

mood, character, vein, flavour;

archaic strain.

5 (effects) they went through the dead man's effects:

belongings, possessions, personal possessions, personal effects, goods, worldly goods, chattels, goods and chattels, accoutrements, appurtenances;

property, paraphernalia;

luggage, baggage;

British rubbish;

informal gear, tackle, kit, things, stuff, junk, bits and pieces, bits and bobs;

British, informal clobber, gubbins;

vulgar slang shit, crap.

□ have an effect on

their behaviors have an effect on others:

affect, influence, exert influence on, act on, work on, condition, touch, interact with, have an impact on, impact on, take hold of, attack, infect, strike, strike at, hit;

change, alter, modify, transform, form, shape, control, govern, determine, decide, guide, sway, bias.

□ in effect

the battle had, in effect, already been won:

really, in reality, in truth, in fact, in actual fact, effectively, essentially, in essence, virtually, practically, in practical terms, for all practical purposes, to all intents and purposes, in all but name, all but, as good as, more or less, as near as dammit, almost, nearly, well nigh, nigh on, just about;

South African plus-minus;

informal pretty much, pretty nearly, pretty well.

□ be in effect

is this law yet in effect?:

be in force, be in operation, act, stand, apply, be applied, run, be/remain valid, be current, function, be efficacious, hold good, be the case, be the order of the day, obtain, hold, be the case, be prevalent, prevail, pertain, be established.

□ put something into effect

the plans have not yet been put into effect:

implement, apply, put into action, put into practice, execute, enact, carry out, carry through, perform, administer;

fulfil, discharge, accomplish, bring about, achieve, realize, contrive, effect;

enforce, impose;

rare effectuate.

□ take effect

1 these measures will take effect on 23rd November:

come into force, come into operation, come into being, begin, become operative, become valid, become law, apply, be applied.

▷antonyms lapse.

2 the drug started to take effect:

work, act, be effective, produce results, have the desired effect, be efficacious.

▷antonyms wear off.

□ to no effect

1 his efforts were all to no effect:

ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, vain, in vain, futile, to no avail, unavailing, useless, unsuccessful, non-successful, nugatory, failed, fruitless, unproductive, profitless, unprofitable, pointless, to no purpose, abortive, inadequate;

archaic for nought, bootless;

rare Sisyphean.

▷antonyms effective, successful.

2 they can bluster to their hearts' content to no effect:

in vain, unsuccessfully, vainly, without success, to no avail, to no purpose, ineffectually, with no result, fruitlessly, profitlessly, unproductively.

▷antonyms successfully.

verb

the government effected a good many changes:

achieve, accomplish, carry out, succeed in, realize, attain, manage, bring off, carry off, carry through, execute, conduct, fix, engineer, perform, do, perpetrate, discharge, fulfil, complete, finish, consummate, conclude;

cause, bring about, cause to happen/occur, initiate, put in place, create, produce, make, give rise to;

provoke, call forth, occasion, bring to pass;

generate, originate, engender, precipitate, actuate, wreak, kindle;

rare effectuate.

easily confused words	effect or affect?
See affect.

effect Oxford Dictionary of English