effortlessly
advUK /ˈɛf.ət.ləs.li/ · US /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.li/
Etymology From effortless + -ly.
1
Without effort; without difficulty or struggle.
- She hoisted the child effortlessly and plopped him in bed.
- Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022: