affective vs effective

affective

Definitions

adjective

  1. characterized by emotion

Examples

Other examples of affective lability can be found in women with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.

He'd like "happiness" to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit "Major affective disorder, pleasant type".

From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.

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effective

Definitions

adjective

  1. ready for service
  2. works well as a means or remedy
  3. able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
  4. producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect
  5. existing in fact; not theoretical; real
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Examples

On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.

Particulates and dust in Earth's atmosphere along the line of sight tend to absorb blue light more effectively than red light.

Thus, developing a vaccine directed against one or a few capsular polysaccharides may not be widely effective.

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