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Definitions: Effortless |
EffortlessAdjective1. Requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air". 2. Not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "effortless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references) |
Synonym: EffortlessSynonym: casual (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: effortful (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Effortless |
| English words defined with "effortless": careless ♦ elegant ♦ sail, sweep. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "effortless": Collet sign, Collet's sign. (references) |
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 | Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia. |
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| "Effortless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Effortless" is used about 165 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 165 | 24,305 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
effortless prosperity | 12 |
effortless mastery | 3 |
effortless | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "effortless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pamundimshëm (walkaway), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless). (various references) | |
Arabic | من غير جهد, هين (cheap, cushy, easy, facile, handy, light, royal, soft), بدون صعوبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който не изисква усилие, лесен (easy, facile, liveable, potty, ready, ready made, runaway, simple, smooth, snap, soft), без усилие (lightly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不出力. (various references) | |
Czech | snadný (easy, facile, light, painless, unlabored, unlaboured), nenucený (casual, easy, glib, informal, nonchalant, relaxed, spontaneous, throwaway, unceremonious, unconstrained, unstudied), lehký (easy, light, lightish, small, thin), bez námahy (with ease, without effort). (various references) | |
French | sans effort, sans difficulté, facile. (various references) | |
German | mühelos (breezing, easily, easy, effortlessly, facile, unlabored). (various references) | |
Greek | χωρίσ προσπάθεια, άκοποσ (uncut). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללא מאמץ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | passzív (passive, tame), megerőltetés nélküli. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak berusaha. (various references) | |
Korean | 노 하지 않". (various references) | |
Manx | gyn eab, aashagh (acquiescent, easy, leisurely, rest, softly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | effortlessay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem esforço (pains), no sentido de (in the sense of), fácil (as a piece of cake, easy, facile, light, open and shut, painless, simple, smooth). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãrã effort (easy). (various references) | |
Russian | не требующий усилий, пассивный (dormant, passive, quiescent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez napora. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin esfuerzo alguno, fácil (cushy, easy, facile, glib, light, loose, painless, ready, simple, well to do). (various references) | |
Swedish | lätt och ledig (jaunty). (various references) | |
Turkish | zahmetsiz (cheap, easy), kolay (cushy, downhill, easy, facile, flowing, open and shut, ready, simple, smooth, straightforward, uncomplicated, unlaboured), gayret etmeyen, çaba gerektirmeyen. (various references) | |
Ukranian | легкий (aerial, airy, cushy, easy, facile, gossamer, light, potty), безтурботний (carefree, careless, cavalier, devil may care, easygoing, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless), бездіяльний (deedless, dormant, easeful, inactive, indolent, killed, otiose, shiftless, torpid, vacuous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thụ động dễ d ng, không cố gắng, không đòi hỏi phải cố gắng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "effortless": effortlessly, effortlessness, effortlessnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "effortless" (pronounced e"fertlus) |
| 4 | -t l u s | atlas, countless, cutlass, doubtless, ductless, flightless, fruitless, guiltless, heartless, limitless, listless, meatless, pilotless, pointless, relentless, restless, rootless, shiftless, spotless, stateless, tasteless, thoughtless, ticketless, warrantless, weightless, witless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, driverless, earless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, frictionless, frivolous, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pitiless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, remorseless, ridiculous, riskless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, stainless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, thankless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, windlass, windowless, wireless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: forefelt, fretless, solerets. | |
-3 letters: efforts, festers, florets, forests, fosters, lofters, offsets, ostlers, reflets, resoles, setoffs, soleret, stereos, sterols, streels, telfers, teloses, toeless, toffees, tressel. | |
-4 letters: effort, eroses, esters, fester, fetors, fleers, fleets, floret, forest, fortes, foster, freest, frosts, lefter, lesser, lessor, lofter, losers, offers, offset, ostler, reests, refels, refelt, reflet, relets, resets, resole, rosets, serest, setoff, setose, sleets, softer, sorels, sorest, steels, steers, steles, stereo, steres, sterol, stoles, stores, streel, telfer, toffee, torses, tosser, tsores. | |
-5 letters: erose, erses, ester, feels, felts, feres, fesse, fetes, fetor, fleer, flees, fleet, floes, floss, fores, forte, forts, fosse, frees, frets, froes, frost, leers, leets, lefts, loess, lofts, lores, loser, loses, offer, ofter, orles, reefs, reels, reest, refel, relet, reset, rests, roles, rolfs, roses, roset, rotes, rotls, seels, seers, selfs, seres, serfs, sleet, sloes, slots, softs, soles, sorel, sores, sorts, steel, steer, stele, stere, stole, store, teels, teffs, teles, telos, terse, toffs, toles, tores, torse, trees, tress. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-f-l-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: effortlessly. | |
+3 letters: effortfulness, forgetfulness. | |
+4 letters: effortlessness, wafflestompers. | |
+5 letters: effortfulnesses, forgetfulnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 66 66 6F 72 74 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..-. ..-. --- .-. - .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E f f o r t l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0066 0066 006F 0072 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39727281848678718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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