Definition of effort

"effort" in the noun sense

1. attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try

earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

"made an effort to cover all the reading material"

"wished him luck in his endeavor"

"she gave it a good try"

2. effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat

use of physical or mental energy hard work

"he got an A for effort"

"they managed only with great exertion"

3. feat, effort, exploit

a notable achievement

"he performed a great feat"

"the book was her finest effort"

4. campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort

a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

"he supported populist campaigns"

"they worked in the cause of world peace"

"the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"

"the movement to end slavery"

"contributed to the war effort"

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Quotations for effort

The man who consecrates his hours
By vigorous effort, and an honest aim.
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. [ Young ]

See the enfranchised bird, who wildly springs,
With a keen sparkle in his glowing eye
And a strong effort in his quivering wings,
Up to the blue vault of the happy sky. [ Mrs. Norton ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. [ John Ruskin ]

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort which is itself painful. [ Goldsmith ]

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. [ William Ellery Channing ]

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. [ Boileau ]

Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form. [ Fichte ]

Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To attain their ends most people are more capable of a great effort than of continued perseverance. [ La Bruyère ]

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [ Propertius ]

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when you rise from a failure to battle again. [ Anon ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and be does it without effort. [ Ruskin ]

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life. [ Beecher ]

That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice. [ Goldsmith ]

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. [ Carlyle ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. [ Garfield ]

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The study of art is a taste at once engrossing and unselfish, which may be indulged without effort, and yet has the power of exciting the deepest emotions, - a taste able to exercise and to gratify both the nobler and softer parts of our nature. [ Guizot ]

There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. [ George Sand ]

Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind. [ Bruyere ]

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]

effort in Scrabble®

The word effort is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters effort:

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effort in Words With Friends™

The word effort is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters effort:

EFFORT
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word effort

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In effort

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Words within the letters of effort

2 letter words in effort (5 words)

3 letter words in effort (11 words)

4 letter words in effort (6 words)

5 letter words in effort (3 words)

6 letter words in effort (1 word)

effort + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence effort

Words with effort in them (2 words)

Words that end with effort (2 words)

Word Growth involving effort

Shorter words in effort

ef eff

or for fort

Longer words containing effort

countereffort counterefforts

effortful

effortless effortlessly

effortless effortlessness effortlessnesses

efforts counterefforts