effortlessly

What it means

1. Without effort; without difficulty or struggle.

   She hoisted the child effortlessly and plopped him in bed.

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: at a canter, in a walk

In a sentence

She hoisted the child effortlessly and plopped him in bed.

Where it comes from

From effortless + -ly.