effortful

Questions about effortful

What does effortful mean?

effortful means "requiring great physical effort".

How many syllables are in effortful?

effortful has 3 syllables and divides as ef-fort-ful under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of effortful?

The recorded antonyms are effortless.

Is effortful a common word?

effortful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for effortful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.