Busy and Effective

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Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.

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Effective and busy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Effective" instead an adjective "Busy".

Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Effective adjective - Producing or capable of producing a desired result.

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Busy and effective are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Effective".

Empowered's existing powers get much more effective when Ninjette is busy disproving the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu, as well as in a couple of other situations of extreme danger.

Source: Defence Mechanism Superpower
In raw power, the Prince of Death is nearly a match for Lucifer himself, but he's too busy being a stereotypical Necromancer and hamming it up to be an effective archvillain.

Source: Tabletop Game / In Nomine
The Sith Dark Council gets hit with this hard in Star Wars: The Old Republic, as most of its members are too busy trying to secure their own power/agendas to acutally come together as effective rulers.

Source: Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering

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