Backbreaking synonyms
băk'brā'kĭng
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Using much energy; strenuous
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- Using much energy; strenuous
- Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
- Difficult to do; laborious; onerous
Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
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- Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
- Requiring much effort or attention:
- Making difficult or irksome demands on a person's resources, patience, energy, etc.
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
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- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
- Hard to satisfy, persuade, please, etc.
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
- Requiring or showing effort.
Requiring precise accuracy
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- Requiring precise accuracy
- Demanding great care, patience, effort, etc.; arduous
- Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
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- Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
- Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
- Requiring immediate action; pressing:
Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
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- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
- Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
- Hard to handle or overcome
Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
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- Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
- Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
- Marked by stubborn refusal to compromise or yield; uncompromising:
Hard to do or manage; difficult
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- Hard to do or manage; difficult
- Hard to do or accomplish; arduous:
- Hard to digest
Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
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- Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
- Involving or calling for much hard work; difficult
- Mentally difficult; painstaking
Burdensome; laborious
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- Burdensome; laborious
- Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
- (Law) Involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits
Hard to put up with; causing great discomfort or fatigue
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- Hard to put up with; causing great discomfort or fatigue
- Burdensome or difficult to bear.
- Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
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- Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
- Rigidly precise; thoroughly accurate or exact
- Harsh, severe, or demanding:
Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
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- Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
- Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
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- Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
Burdensome; wearing:
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- Burdensome; wearing:
- With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
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- Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Very difficult; toilsome
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- Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
- That tries one's patience; annoying; exasperating; irksome
- Difficult to endure; arduous.
Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
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- Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
- Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
- Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
heavy (related)
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