Dictionary Entry
effect
effect is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
- 2noun
Manifestation; expression; sign.
- 3noun
In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
- 4noun
Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- 5noun
Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
- 6noun
Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
- 7noun
The purport; the sum and substance.
- 8noun
Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
- 9noun
Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
- 10transitive verb
To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
- 11transitive verb
To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
- 12noun
an outward appearance
"he made a good impression"
"I wanted to create an impression of success"
Synonyms
- 13noun
(of a law) having legal validity
"the law is still in effect"
Synonyms
- 14noun
an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
"he just did it for effect"
- 15noun
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- 16noun
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
"the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"
"his decision had depressing consequences for business"
- 17noun
a symptom caused by an illness or a drug
"the effects of sleep loss"
"the effect of the anesthetic"
- 18verb
produce
"The scientists set up a shock wave"
Synonyms
- 19verb
act so as to bring into existence
"effect a change"
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