effortless
Done easily, without seeming to try hard at all.
effortless in a sentence
- Watching the champion skater, every spin looked effortless, as if she were floating on air.
- The eagle's flight looked effortless as it circled higher and higher without flapping its wings once.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to effortless?
- Adifficult
- Btiring
- Chard
- Deasy
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D: easy. The other three mean the opposite of effortless.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to effortless?
- Asmooth
- Beasy
- Csimple
- Dhard
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D: hard. The other three mean nearly the same as effortless.
Words that mean something similar
easy, simple, smooth
Words that mean the opposite
hard, difficult, tiring
More words about movement & action
- elevate: To lift something up to a higher position.
- elude: To cleverly escape from or avoid someone.
- embark: To begin a journey or a big new activity.
- emerge: To come out of somewhere and appear.
- encounter: To meet someone or something unexpectedly.
- energetic: Full of energy and always ready to be active.
- engulf: To swallow up or completely cover something.
- envelop: To wrap up or completely surround something.
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Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test