arduous
21arduous — adjective an arduous journey Syn: onerous, taxing, difficult, hard, heavy, laborious, burdensome, strenuous, vigorous, back breaking; demanding, tough, challenging, formidable; exhausting, tiring, punishing, grueling; …
22arduous — [16] Latin arduus, the source of English arduous, originally meant ‘high, steep’ (it is related to Greek orthós ‘straight, upright, correct’, as in English orthodox); the sense ‘difficult, laborious’ was a later metaphorical development. (The… …
23arduous — adj. 1 hard to achieve or overcome; laborious, strenuous. 2 steep, difficult (an arduous path). Derivatives: arduously adv. arduousness n. Etymology: L arduus steep, difficult …
24arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome — effortful effortful adj. 1. requiring great physical effort. Opposite of {effortless}. [Narrower terms: {arduous, backbreaking, back breaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome};… …
25arduous — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, abrupt, abstruse, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful, energetic, exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, forced, formidable, grueling …
26arduous — ar·du·ous || É‘ËdjÊŠÉ™s adj. difficult, hard, laborious, exhausting …
27arduous — [ α:djʊəs] adjective difficult and tiring. Derivatives arduously adverb arduousness noun Origin C16: from L. arduus steep, difficult + ous …
28arduous — a. 1. Steep, high, lofty, uphill. 2. Hard, difficult, laborious, onerous, troublesome, Herculean, toilsome, tiresome, wearisome, fatiguing, beset with difficulties, full of difficulties …
29arduous — adj 1. laborious, difficult, hard; onerous, burdensome, heavy, operose; exhausting, wearisome, tiresome, fatiguing; irksome, troublesome, trying. 2. energetic, vigorous, robust; forceful, forcible, emphatic, strenuous; herculean, mighty, powerful …
30arduous — ar·du·ous …
