Can a Person Be Effortful?

1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty.

Is there such a word as effortful?

marked by effort or exertion; labored.

What means effortful?

: showing or requiring effort.