effortless
Americanadjective
adjective
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requiring or involving little effort; easy
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archaic making little effort; passive
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Explanation
Something effortless is easy to do — or at least appears that way. Great basketball players make scoring three-point shots look effortless. If you always know just what to wear, you have an effortless sense of style. Effort is the work it takes to do something. Moving a couch and staying on a diet both require effort. If something is effortless, it takes no work at all to do. For example, lifting a feather is effortless. Writing may be effortless for some people, but difficult for others. Also, some things just look effortless. A great musician might make playing guitar sound effortless, but years of practice probably went into it. Experts make difficult things seem effortless.
Vocabulary lists containing effortless
Power Suffix: -less
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Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, research, education and anyone else who wants to produce a stream of creative ideas and products.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
Lukas Van Vyve, author and founder of Effortless Conversations book, is a believer in a hybrid approach.
From Salon • Feb. 10, 2024
This recipe, for a maple-mustard roasted chicken, is inspired by one from the British author Diana Henry’s cookbook “Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavors.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022
The experiment worked — “My Effortless Brilliance” screened at South by Southwest and brought Shelton the Someone to Watch Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2009.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2020
Effortless, like creatures of the music adrift upon its sounding tides, they circled the floor once, twice, and again, before reluctantly Lanyard brought himself to shatter the spell of that enchantment.
From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
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