efficious
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Had she not been cured at Oxford, no imputation could have fallen upon me, considering the circumstance of her pregnancy, and the virulence of the symptoms, for which I had used the most efficious remedies in the world."
- "This remedy will be found speedily efficious in hoarseness due to excessive action of the vocal cords or resulting from an acute cold."
- "[...] was found to be efficious in reducing pain and severity of swelling (Laupattarakasem et al. 1993)."
Etymology
Possibly a variation of efficacious or derivative of efficacy influenced by analysis of the final -c- in the later word as being part of a suffix -cy rather than the word-stem.
Inflected Forms
more efficious (comparative)
most efficious (superlative)