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Meanings of effortful in English

Requiring great physical effort.

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        1
        Looking pretty can be quite simple and effortless for a beach house.
        Jamaica Observer
        2
        I wanted to look the business: cool, effortless, but funky as well.
        The Guardian
        3
        Ditties are easy to learn, and fairly short and effortless to sing.
        The South African
        4
        Second, falling in love is not real love because it is effortless.
        The 5 love languages: the secret to love that lasts
        5
        The food was simple, delicious, and served with that effortless Italian style.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of effortful in English
        1
        R. E. Y. O.... Georgia read, in that same effortful, short-of-breath voice.
        Heart-shaped box
        2
        Each breath became effortful, each slower and more rasping than the last.
        Caleb's crossing
        3
        Relative to NC, UFOVt reduced activity in ROIs involved in effortful information processing.
        Pubmed
        4
        The activity of projecting, in short, was effortful, undesirable, and marred with self-doubt.
        The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
        5
        The air has thickened through the day, and breathing seems effortful.
        Real life & liars
        6
        A low, effortful moan issued from the back of her throat.
        The passage
        7
        He always found the conversation especially effortful when it came to his own work.
        Career of Evil
        8
        It all seems suddenly so effortful, precarious, unlikely, even odd.
        A monster's notes
        9
        This gives the sufferer a strained, strangled, effortful voice quality.
        The Irish Times
        10
        The figure heaved and shifted laboriously, releasing gasping puffs of breath and effortful grunts.
        The thirteenth tale: a novel
        11
        Such choices therefore require the development of potential value estimates to guide effortful goal-directed behavior.
        Pubmed
        12
        Harper made her effortful way toward the engine below.
        The Fireman
        13
        OT did not affect effortful motivation at any time-point.
        Pubmed
        14
        The effortful sneer had become a big goofball grin.
        IT
        15
        His face wore an outward expression of calm, but there was something effortful about this.
        The passage
        16
        This attention-dependent increase in frontal brain activation may be a neural marker for effortful listening.
        Pubmed
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        Effortful through the time