arduous (s)
backbreaking (s)
grueling (s)
gruelling (s)
hard#1 (s)
heavy (s)
laborious (s)
operose (s)
punishing (s)
toilsome (s)

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type s
lex_filenum 00
def characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
def especially physical effort
examples worked their arduous way up the mining valley
a grueling campaign
hard labor
heavy work
heavy going
spent many laborious hours on the project
set a punishing pace
Outgoing links
Similar to effortful
Derivationally related form toilsome → toilsomeness
Derivationally related form operose → operoseness
Derivationally related form laborious → labor; laborious → laboriousness
Derivationally related form heavy → heaviness
Derivationally related form hard → hardness
Derivationally related form arduous → arduousness
Incoming links
Similar to effortful
Derived from adjective hard → hard
Derived from adjective arduously → arduous
Derived from adjective laboriously → laborious
Derivationally related form labor → laborious; laboriousness → laborious
Derivationally related form arduousness → arduous
Derivationally related form toilsomeness → toilsome
Derivationally related form operoseness → operose
Derivationally related form hardness → hard
Derivationally related form heaviness → heavy

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