EFFORTFUL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Requiring great physical effort

Classified under:

Similar:

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)

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)

Also:

difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)

Antonym:

effortless (requiring or apparently requiring no effort)

Derivation:

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)