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Definition of Effortless
1. Adjective. Requiring or apparently requiring no effort. "The swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"
Similar to: Facile, Unforced, Unstrained
Antonyms: Effortful
Derivative terms: Effortlessness
2. Adjective. Not showing effort or strain. "Careless grace"
Definition of Effortless
1. a. Making no effort.
Definition of Effortless
1. Adjective. Without effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Effortless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effortless
Literary usage of Effortless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spontaneous and Supervised Play in Childhood by Alice Corbin Sies (1922)
"That effortless motion is accompanied by pleasurable results seems apparent from
even a cursory investigation into the sports of mankind and the play ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"His sobriety was effortless; it was that of a sound man, not of an ascetic.
He was not a vegetarian nor a total abstainer from wine; but of tobacco, ..."
3. Social Wrongs and State Responsibilities by William Jandus (1913)
"PRIVATE CAPITALISM AND effortless INCOME PRIVATE capitalism is a private institution
and the traffic in solvent functions is the exclusive privilege of the ..."
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