Arduous
['ɑːdjʊəs] or ['ɑrdʒuəs]
Definition
(adj.) difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; 'the arduous work of preparing a dictionary' .
(adj.) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; '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' .
(adj.) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; 'his final, straining burst of speed'; 'a strenuous task'; 'your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here'- F.D.Roosevelt .
Editor: Margie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
(a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Steep, high, lofty, uphill.[2]. Hard, difficult, laborious, onerous, troublesome, Herculean, toilsome, tiresome, wearisome, fatiguing, beset with difficulties, full of difficulties.
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Definition
adj. deep difficult to climb: difficult to accomplish: laborious.—adv. Ard′uously.—n. Ard′uousness.
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Examples
- What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Arduous work was at once resumed at home on duplex and quadruplex telegraphy, just as though there had been no intermission or discouragement over dots twenty-seven feet long. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The water may be brought to the surface either by laboriously raising it, bucket by bucket, or by the less arduous method of pumping. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The duties of kingship among the anthropoids are not many or arduous. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The task was an arduous one and required the better part of a month, though he built but one small room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The troops now went to work to make themselves comfortable, and to enjoy a little rest after their arduous campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The spending of three and four arduous nights a week in these trenches by Mr. Edison and his associates suggests the rigor of the later European warfare. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Each felt, that England had never seen a Protector so capable of fulfilling the arduous duties of that high office. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yours, said he, is an arduous calling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Do you know how long it has taken me (allowing for a long and arduous training) to earn such a sum? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking; but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He undertook, therefore, the arduous task of persuading the young ladies to favour the company with an air--a song. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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