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Definition: Effortlessly |
EffortlesslyAdverb1. Without effort or apparent effort; "she danced gracefully and effortlessly"; "swallows gliding effortlessly through the air". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Effortlessly |
| English words defined with "effortlessly": coast ♦ glide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "effortlessly": brain fart. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Effortlessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.58% of the time. "Effortlessly" is used about 236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.58% | 235 | 19,568 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.42% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "effortlessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | mühelos (breezing, easily, easy, effortless, facile, unlabored), mühelose. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megerőltetés nélkül (at an easy pace), könnyen (biddable, easily, easy, evanescent, gullible, light, lightly, pliableness, pliancy, queasy, readily, skittish, to prick, to trip, tractable, with ease). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "れと同じ (complaining about various things, confusion, easily, game of make-believe, huddle, in this way, jarring sound, jumble, like this, mess, misspelling of "ko n ba n ha", misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", mix, rummaging sound, small and round thing rolling, so, something done together, something that changes frequently, such, suddenly, the same as this, trouble, utterly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ろりと (easily, suddenly, utterly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | effortlesslyay.(various references) | |
Russian | без усилий. (various references) | |
Spanish | fácilmente (easily, easy, facilely, readily, smoothly, with ease). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "effortlessly" (pronounced e"fertluslē) |
| 6 | -t l u s l ē | fruitlessly, listlessly, relentlessly, restlessly. |
| 5 | -l u s l ē | aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, endlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, frivolously, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, jealously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, painlessly, perilously, recklessly, ridiculously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, tremulously, zealously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, judiciously, laboriously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-f-l-l-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: effortless. | |
-3 letters: foretells, sollerets. | |
-4 letters: forefelt, foretell, fretless, loftless, restyles, roselles, solerets, solleret, trolleys. | |
-5 letters: efforts, erosely, fellers, fellest, felloes, festers, fleetly, florets, flyless, forests, fosters, fylfots, lofters, offsets, ostlers, oysters, reflets, resells, resoles, restyle, retells, roselle, sellers, setoffs, soleret, stereos, sterols, storeys, streels, strolls, stylers, systole, telfers, tellers, teloses, tersely, toeless, toffees, tollers, toyless, tressel, trolley, yellers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 66 66 6F 72 74 6C 65 73 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..-. ..-. --- .-. - .-.. . ... ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E f f o r t l e s s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0066 0066 006F 0072 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397272818486787185857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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