Definition of effect

"effect" in the noun sense

1. consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot

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"

"he acted very wise after the event"

2. impression, effect

an outward appearance

"he made a good impression"

"I wanted to create an impression of success"

"she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting"

3. effect

an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived

"he just did it for effect"

4. effect, essence, burden, core, gist

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

5. effect, force

of a law) having legal validity

"the law is still in effect"

6. effect

a symptom caused by an illness or a drug

"the effects of sleep loss"

"the effect of the anesthetic"

"effect" in the verb sense

1. effect, effectuate, set up

produce

"The scientists set up a shock wave"

2. effect

act so as to bring into existence

"effect a change"

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Quotations for effect

That which two will takes effect. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Courage is often an effect of fear. [ French Proverb ]

A feeble dart thrown without effect. [ Virgil ]

The effect speaks, the tongue needs not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. [ Hazlitt ]

Cause and effect are the chancellors of God. [ Emerson ]

Let us try what esteem and kindness can effect. [ Johnson ]

Reason can generally effect more than blind force. [ Gallus ]

To all facts there are laws,
The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. [ Lord Lytton ]

All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. [ Johnson ]

Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God. [ Cowper ]

Distance produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. [ Scott ]

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. [ Froude ]

Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? [ Michelet ]

Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The precepts of philosophy effect not the least benefit to one confirmed in fear. [ Hitopadesa ]

In that corroding secrecy which gnaws the heart to show the effect, but not the cause. [ Byron ]

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life. [ Johnson ]

A calumnious abuse, too often repeated, becomes so familiar to the ear as to lose its effect.

Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. [ La Bruyère ]

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The frequent recourse to finesse is always the effect of incapacity and the mark of a small mind. [ French ]

Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth. [ Hooker ]

It becomes extremely hard to disentangle our idea of the cause from the effect by which we know it. [ Burke ]

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. [ Zoroaster ]

Harsh cousels have little or no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. [ Helvetius ]

To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of the effect his death would produce. [ Levis ]

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. [ Hosea Ballou ]

If, of all vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men. [ Helvetius ]

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. [ Horace ]

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]

In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect, of a religious life. [ Addison ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. [ Mme. Necker ]

The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty. On the contraiy, it strikes us more the more we are familiar with it. [ Goethe ]

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. [ Boiste ]

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent. [ Newton ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect. [ Plato ]

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effect; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, as well as extreme hatred. [ Chapman ]

Books produce the same effect on the mind that diet does on the body; they may either impart no salutary nutriment, or convey that which is pernicious. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Fortunately, in England at any rate, Education produces no effect whatsoever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quick'st decrees the inaudible and noiseless foot of Time steals, ere we can effect them. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]

There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it. [ South ]

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. [ John Ruskin ]

Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it: it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward. [ Beecher ]

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. [ Joubert ]

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a general negligence of dress, and he will in all probability find a corresponding disposition by negligence of address. [ Sir Jonah Barrington ]

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator. [ Colton ]

An era is fast approaching when no writer will be rend by the majority, save and except those than can effect that for bales of manuscript that the hydrostatic screw performs for bales of cotton, by condensing that matter into a period that before occupied a page. [ Cottar ]

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. [ Voltaire ]

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent. [ Colton ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. [ Albert Barnes ]

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be obtained or retained. [ Beaconsfield ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]

effect in Scrabble®

The word effect is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

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