Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or producing large or important results; effectual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective HAving results or effects.
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- adjective Having
results oreffects .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The work is going on actively and we hope that it is a resultful one.
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His first movements, too -- seemingly so brilliant and dashing, compared to the more steady but resultful ones of Johnston -- produced a thrill of pride and hope with all the people, save the thoughtful few, who felt we could not afford now to buy glory and victory unless it tended to the one result -- safety.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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The fall and winter wore away with these desultory movements; producing many a sharp skirmish, but nothing more resultful.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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You may have heard of "irresistible" letters -- sales letters that would sell electric fans to Esquimaux or ice skates to Hawaiians, collection letters that make the thickest skinned debtor remit by return mail, and other kinds of resultful, masterful letters that pierce to the very soul.
How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence Mary Owens Crowther
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That talk was even more superb and resultful to me and I'm just about ready to quit ....
An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker
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The preceding pages note the rapid and vast growth of the Union navy; but the South misjudged -- until error had proved fatal -- that enterprise and "grit" of Yankee character; that fixed steadiness of purpose which forced both, ever, into most resultful effort.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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More than three times as much was gathered as the campaign cost, and pastors and church members everywhere testified that the meetings were resultful in spiritual uplift and blessing, as well as in stimulating interest and greatly increased gifts.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896 Various
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Page 39 at all, less resultful, come clamoring for mention: D.C. Barnes of Murfreesboro; Mrs. Ollie Webster of Siler City; Mrs. N.
History of War Savings Campaign of 1918 in North Carolina 1919
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That talk was even more superb and resultful to me and I'm just about ready to quit ....
An American Idyll Parker, Cornelia Stratton, 1885- 1919
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Another line of resultful work entered upon by the Department under Democratic auspices is the establishment of Test Farms in various sections of the State.
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