Effort

Noun

 * 1) The amount of work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
 * 2) An endeavour.

Verb

 * 1)  To make an effort.

Adjectives for Effort
best; spasmodic persevering; editorial; effectual; baffled irrelevant; determined; vague; misdirected rash; sincere; spontaneous; notable; crude violent; vain; inadequate; collective; immense; energetic; perilous; organized; powerful; undue; conceivable; formidable; periodic; praiseworthy; pioneering; never-ceasing; continued; self-denying; willing exhausting; arduous; constructive; moral fitful; creative; initial; expiratory; bizarre rain-making; remedial; serious; apparent sober; sympathetic; painstaking; offensive special; colloquial; ridiculous; everlasting sedulous; anxious; united; patient; plastic maiden; pathetic; dutiful; generous; repetitive; financial; belated; poetic; obstinate; volunteer; co-operative; communal; religious; appropriate; published; unremitting; diligent; supreme; avowed; expired; earnest; enforcement; passionate; future; pretentious; evident; bluffing; murderous; barren; sublimest; kindly; sincere; vexed; ambitious; operatic; courageous; unwise; individual; unflinching; restraining; sheer; obvious; ceaseless; insane; sporadic; powerful; convulsive; belated; manful; stringent; fanatical; bitter; renewed; daring; conciliatory; overt; pitiful; thwarted; ponderous; childish; rash; humble; feeble; emotional; culminating; futile; creditable; clumsy; persistent; crowning; strained; zealous; individual; abortive; desperate; unscrupulous; constrained; infantile; frantic; untiring; slightest; reasonable; laborious; fragmentary; prolonged; wasted; proud; unsuccessful; painful; indomitable; stupendous; superior; strenuous; sustained; conscious; concentrated; active; stern; Herculean; visible; pictorial; vigorous; charitable; automatic; dynamic; heroic; mightiest; literary; concerted; willful; strong intermittent; bounding; mental; feverish immense; utmost; tentative; paramount extra; oracular; extant; superhuman; conversational; languid; consecutive; tireless; unionized; wearisome; insufferable; historical; fruitless; human;

Synonyms for Effort

 * struggle

Thesaurus
venture, whack, while, work, working hypothesis, working proposition, works, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, ad hoc measure, adventure, affair, answer, application, approach, artifice, assay, attainment, attempt, bid, blow, business, chore, commitment, contract, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, crack, creation, deal, dealings, deed, demarche, determination, device, dodge, doing, doings, elbow grease, endeavor, energy, engagement, enterprise, essay, exertion, expedient, experiment, exploit, fait accompli, feat, fling, force, gambit, gest, gimmick, go, hand, handiwork, hard pull, improvisation, job, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, labor, last expedient, last resort, last shift, lick, long pull, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, might, might and main, move, muscle, nerve and sinew, obligation, offer, operation, overt act, pains, passage, performance, pis aller, plan, power, proceeding, production, program, project, proposition, puissance, res gestae, resolution, resort, resource, shake-up, shift, shot, solution, stab, step, stopgap, strain, stratagem, striving, stroke, stroke of policy, strong bid, struggle, stunt, tactic, task, temporary expedient, tentative, thing, thing done, toil, tour de force, transaction, travail, trial, trial and error, trick, trouble, trump, try, turn, undertaking,

Etymology
From effort:, from  esfort:, deverbal noun from esforcier:, from  *exfortiare, from  ex: + fortis:

Noun

 * Armenian:, ջանք
 * Catalan: esforç
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: klopodo
 * Finnish: ponnistus, vaiva, yritys
 * German: ,
 * Greek: προσπάθεια
 * Hebrew: מאמץ


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: efort, solicitare
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ansträngning, insats

Etymology
, from esfort:

Related terms

 * efforcer

Anagrams

 * offert