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effortless

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air" [ant: effortful ] not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: casual ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1752, "passive, making no effort," from effort + -less . Meaning "easy, requiring no effort" is from 1810. Related: Effortlessly ; effortlessness .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Garner's effortless performance makes the show a pleasure to watch. ▪ Mark drew quickly and with confidence, in a way that looked completely effortless . ▪ Other musicians were amazed by Parker's effortless improvisational ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Without effort.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Effortless \Ef"fort*less\, a. Making no effort. --Southey. requiring little or no effort; as, an effortless victory.

Usage examples of effortless.

What I really wanted to do was scope out the area so that I could maneuver Brie into a spot where the trick seemed effortless and unplanned.

A few minutes later, Karl lifted the centerboard, while the newsman eased the bow up onto the beach with as effortless a skill as Steve had ever seen.

He tried to fling himself at the Hurrian and had to be caught virtually in mid-air by one of the Mauvs, who held him immobile with an effortless constriction of biceps.

In the lower order of animals, as in sponges, absorption is performed by contiguous cells, which are quite as effortless as in plants.

Oliver carried on ai effortless conversation with her mother and father, completely at his ease, gave Ella a few useful hints about the biology paper she was preparing for her class, and without appearing to do so, drew Beatrice into the talk.

Mahisha, now unconcerned with Babu, paralleled the move in his cage in a fluid, effortless motion.

Michaela was closing the distance, beelining for him, knocking people sprawling with what seemed effortless blows.

With Forister and Micaya strapped down in their cabins, she arced through the collapsing spaces in an effortless flashing dive.

He'd climbed on Earth, but you felt silly struggling up a rock cliff when teen-agers were soaring past you in chairlifts on their effortless way to the top and giggling at the anachronist who wanted to do it the hard way!

He had, that first day, watched several of the far-gone communicants "speaking in tongues," and he was disturbed not so much by the gibberish pouring out of the slack faces as by the fact that they were all doing it in precise, effortless unison, as ifand Rivas still recalled the image that had occurred to him thenas if each of them was just one visible loop of a vast, vibrating worm.

This year was happy in unusual numbers of birds (nesting-time had been particularly favourable) and Stephen and Brigid wandered about the smooth hay-meadows, by the standing corn, and along the banks, he telling her the names of countless insects, many, many birds - kingfishers, dippers, dabchicks, and the occasional teal: coots and moorhens, of course - as well as his particular favourites, henharrier, sparrowhawk and kestrel and once a single splendid peregrine, a falcon clipping her way not much above head-height with effortless speed.

Ayla held her spear ready to hurl as well, but even at a gallop she rode with an easy, effortless grace that was the result of practice, and her initial training of the horse that had been unintentional, bnc felt that many of her signals to the horse were more an extension oi thought than an act of guidance.

Somewhere in the middle of this continuum, an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises, but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium.

The peacefulness of their effortless floating through the air was at odds with the turmoil inside Jim.

Odysseus planted his feet, gripped the sword in one hand, and swung idly at the trunk in an effortless backhand stroke.