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Definition of Effortful
1. Adjective. Requiring great physical effort.
Similar to: Arduous, Backbreaking, Grueling, Gruelling, Hard, Heavy, Laborious, Operose, Punishing, Toilsome, Dragging, Exhausting, Tiring, Wearing, Wearying, Heavy, Labored, Laboured, Labor-intensive, Labour-intensive, Leaden, Plodding, Sisyphean, Arduous, Straining, Strenuous
Derivative terms: Effortfulness
Antonyms: Effortless
Definition of Effortful
1. Adjective. Requiring or showing effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Effortful
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effortful
Literary usage of Effortful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"With reference to effort, then, we may speak of three stages of practice: the
initial, exploratory stage, the awkward and effortful stage, and the skilled ..."
2. Our Social Heritage by Graham Wallas (1921)
"All languages have pairs of words like "see" and "look," or "hear" and "listen,"
by which we can distinguish between the effortless and effortful use of ..."
3. Critical Perspectives On Racial And Ethnic Differences In Health In Late Life by Norman B. Anderson, Rodolfo A. Bulatao, Barney Cohen (2004)
"However, for African-American men with limited resources, the benefits of effortful
coping (ie, economic survival) appear to be tempered by increased health ..."
4. Educational Psychology: Briefer Course by Edward Lee Thorndike (1914)
"[Ruediger, '10, p. n6] "Now no small part of the discipline which comes from the
effortful use of attention in any direction or on any topic is to be found ..."
5. Ethics: Descriptive and Explanatory by Sidney Edward Mezes (1900)
"5 Professor Baldwin holds that the child's first voluntary actions take the form
of persistent imitations, and, since persistent imitations are effortful, ..."
6. Our Heredity from God: Consisting of Lectures on Evolution by Edward Payson Powell (1887)
"The animal kingdom moved off aggressive, progressive, effortful, and conscious.
The vegetable kingdom was for a while of the same sort, effortful, ..."
7. Understanding the Brain: Towards a New Learning Science by OECD Staff (2002)
"effortful control can be assessed by synthesising answers from parents to questions
about their child's tendency to concentrate on activity (focused ..."
8. The Meaning of God in Human Experience: A Philosophic Study of Religion by William Ernest Hocking (1912)
"The contrast between mystic experience and ' life' is at the same time a contrast
between effortless attention and effortful attention. ..."
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