Appropriately and Effectively

Appropriately

Appropriately adverb - In a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose.

Effectively and appropriately are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effectively" instead an adverb "Appropriately".

Effectively

Effectively adverb - In an effective manner.
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Appropriately and effectively are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appropriately" instead an adverb "Effectively".

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Watership Down This effectively sets up the reader to be appropriately shocked themselves when it is later used in a far more casual manner by Woundwort.
  • The boringly but appropriately named Suits in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space books are this, effectively turning their wearers into Flying Bricks and providing a pretty devastating range of weapons via a Hyperspace Arsenal.
  • BFG: Numerous examples "...thinking back on the older times before electronic currency replaced coinage, along with the fact that this weapon effectively fires hot, sticky substances at enemies, have appropriately nicknamed this weapon 'The Moneyshot.'" "Finagle's Revenge" Recoilless Rifle.
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