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EFFORTFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does effortful mean?
• EFFORTFUL (adjective)
The adjective EFFORTFUL has 1 sense:
1. requiring great physical effort
Familiarity information: EFFORTFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Requiring great physical effort
Similar:
arduous; backbreaking; grueling; gruelling; hard; heavy; laborious; operose; punishing; toilsome (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)
dragging (marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner)
exhausting; tiring; wearing; wearying (producing exhaustion)
heavy; labored; laboured (requiring or showing effort)
labor-intensive; labour-intensive (requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital)
leaden; plodding ((of movement) slow and laborious)
Sisyphean (both extremely effortful and futile)
arduous; straining; strenuous (taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance)
Also:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Antonym:
effortless (requiring or apparently requiring no effort)
Derivation:
effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)
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