Effort
Player
Player noun - A person who plays a musical instrument.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Late Character Syndrome A character who comes to the party too late in the game for the player to want to go through the effort of using them.
Source: Videogame Tropes - In this Underswap video, Temmie (who has Flowey's role, and vice versa) plays dumb in an effort to lower the player character's guard so he can more easily kill them.
Source: Obfuscating Stupidity / Fanworks - The item needed is found hours before, and the game only makes an effort to hint to the player what that item's purpose is in the game after it's too late to matter to the player.
Source: Violation of Common Sense
Cite this Source
Player and Effort. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/effort/player
Effort & Player. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/effort/player>.
Player or Effort. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/effort/player.
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