Effortful

Other forms: effortfully

Definitions of effortful

adjective
requiring great physical effort

synonyms:
difficult, hard
not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

dragging
marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner

exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying
producing exhaustion

heavy, labored, laboured
requiring or showing effort

labor-intensive, labour-intensive
requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital

leaden, plodding
(of movement) slow and laborious

Sisyphean
both extremely effortful and futile

arduous, straining, strenuous
taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance

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antonyms:
effortless
requiring or apparently requiring no effort

easy
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort

facile
performing adroitly and without effort

unforced, unstrained
not resulting from undue effort; not forced

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