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adjective
  1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:

    arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy
  2. Not natural or spontaneous:

    contrived, forced, labored, strained. See true

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