Definitions
in actuality or reality or fact
Word origin
From effective + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“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[.]”
“On paper, the answer seems to be yes, but, effectively, the answer is no.”
“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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