Definition of effortful Effortful

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We found 2 definitions of effortful from 2 different sources.

What does effortful mean?

Adjective
effortful - requiring great physical effort
		effortless requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"
		difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
		toilsome, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, operose, laborious, punishing, arduous, hard, heavy resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
		dragging marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
		tiring, wearing, wearying, exhausting producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
		labored, laboured, heavy lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
		labor-intensive, labour-intensive requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive"
		plodding, leaden (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
		sisyphean both extremely effortful and futile