Arduousness
41adventure — adventure, enterprise, quest denote an undertaking, an exploit, or an experience involving hazards and requiring boldness. Adventure so stresses the excitement or thrills associated with the encountering of risks or hardships that the word is… …
42delicacy — n 1. lightness, fineness, slightness, slen derness, fragility, daintiness; translucency, tenuity, diaphaneity, transparence, etherealness, flimsiness; tenderness, softness. 2. tidbit, appetizer, dainty, bonbon, sweetmeat, luxury. 3. refinement,… …
43difficulty — n 1. laboriousness, arduousness, stren uousness, formidableness, formidability; labor, strain, struggle, hard sledding, rough going, tough job, hard row to hoe. 2. troublesomeness, bothersome, irksomeness, bur densomeness, oppressiveness,… …
44hardness — n 1. firmness, solidity, compactness, density; impenetrability, imperviousness, renitency, re sistency; stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inextensibility, inelasticity, inflexibility, unmalleability, intractability, unbendingness; immutability,… …
45severity — n 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness;… …
46difficulty — noun 1) the difficulty of balancing motherhood with a career Syn: strain, trouble, problems, struggle, laboriousness, arduousness; informal hassle, stress 2) practical difficulties Syn: problem, complication …
47arduous — /ˈadʒuəs / (say ahjoohuhs) adjective 1. requiring great exertion; laborious; strenuous: an even more arduous campaign; an arduous climb to the top. 2. hard to endure; severe; full of hardships: *We were dealing through interpreters with people… …
48trek — The verb has inflected forms trekked, trekking. The word implies a strong element of difficulty or arduousness, and as a synonym of go is used in hyperbole or for jocular effect …
49difficulty — [n1] problem; situation requiring great effort adversity, arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, complication, crisis, crux, dead end, deadlock, deep water*, dilemma, distress, emergency, exigency, fix*, frustration, hardship, hazard,… …
50arduous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ difficult and tiring. DERIVATIVES arduously adverb arduousness noun. ORIGIN Latin arduus steep, difficult …
