Effortless means done so well it looks easy. Effortless grace, effortlessly stylish, an effortless win.
It nearly always describes the appearance rather than the fact — effortless performance is the result of enormous practice, and saying so is the point of the compliment. Effortless style is a whole marketing genre. Note that -less means without, and that nothing worth doing actually is.
1adjectiveeffortlessDone so well it looks easy.
“She made the difficult dance look effortless, as if she were floating.”
synonyms: easy, unforced
effortless is a quality of ease.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰerǵʰ-
Latin
ex
Vulgar Latin
*exfortiō
Old French
esfort
Middle French
effort
English
effort
English, today
effortless
Built from
From effort + -less. effort comes from Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”). Compare typologically усилие, úsilí, wysiłek, уси́лие (< sila).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA