effortful
effortful adjective: requiring or showing effort.
Adjective
effortful (comparative more effortful, superlative most effortful)
- Requiring or showing effort.
- It is obvious, therefore, that syntopical reading is the most active and effortful kind of reading.(Can we date this quote?), How to Read a Book, Revised and Updated Edition edition, page 20
- Synonyms:
- heavy
- Antonyms:
- effortless
effortful meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam
effortful in Hindi
- effortful, laborious
- प्रयत्नशील prayatnaśīl
effortful in Tamil
- முயற்சியுள்ள
effortful in Malayalam
- effortful; requiring effort
- പ്രയാസം prayāsaṁ
Synonyms of effortful
Antonyms
Forms of effortful
| comparative | more effortful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most effortful |
Origin of effortful
From effort + -ful.
Words formed from effortful
Questions about effortful
- What does effortful mean?
- Effortful means requiring or showing effort.
- What is effortful in Hindi?
- Effortful in Hindi is प्रयत्नशील (prayatnaśīl). See Effortful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is effortful?
- Effortful is an adjective.
Words near effortful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: effortful (page history and authors); प्रयत्नशील (Hindi) (page history and authors); effortful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പ്രയാസം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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