| 单词 | effortless |
| 释义 | effortless (once / 5982 pages) adj 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. WORD FAMILYeffortless: effortlessly, effortlessness+/effort: effortful, effortless, efforts/effortful: effortfully, effortfulness USAGE EXAMPLESWhat seemed like effortless mayhem on the screen was the result of a painstaking — and unorthodox — directing approach. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Her cool seems effortless, though her control of it is precise. The New Yorker(Dec 24, 2016) What looks like effortless fun is based on dozens of strategic decisions by Holliday and his team. Washington Post(Dec 07, 2016) 1adj requiring or apparently requiring no effort the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air Syn|Ant easy posing no difficulty; requiring little effort facileperforming adroitly and without effort unforced, unstrainednot resulting from undue effort; not forced effortful requiring great physical effort difficult, hardnot easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomecharacterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort draggingmarked by a painfully slow and effortful manner exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearyingproducing exhaustion heavy, labored, labouredrequiring or showing effort labor-intensive, labour-intensiverequiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital leaden, plodding(of movement) slow and laborious Sisypheanboth extremely effortful and futile arduous, straining, strenuoustaxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance 2adj not showing effort or strain Syn casual easy posing no difficulty; requiring little effort |
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