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arduous
Using much energy; strenuous
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  1. Using much energy; strenuous
  2. Difficult to do; laborious; onerous
  3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
hard
Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
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  1. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  2. Lacking in shade; undiminished:
  3. Stern, strict, or demanding:
assiduous
Done with constant and careful attention
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  1. Done with constant and careful attention
  2. Showing or characterized by persistent attention or untiring application:
  3. Diligent; persevering
diligent
Marked by persevering, painstaking effort.
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  1. Marked by persevering, painstaking effort.
  2. Persevering and careful in work; industrious
  3. Done with careful, steady effort; painstaking
stiff
Excessively formal, constrained, or awkward; not easy, natural, or graceful
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  1. Excessively formal, constrained, or awkward; not easy, natural, or graceful
  2. Hard to move or operate; not free or limber
  3. Hard to bend or stretch; rigid; firm; not flexible or pliant
indefatigable
That cannot be tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring
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  1. That cannot be tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring
  2. Having or showing a capacity for persistent effort; not tiring or relenting:
arduous
Using much energy; strenuous
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  1. Using much energy; strenuous
  2. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
  3. Difficult to do; laborious; onerous
backbreaking
Requiring great physical exertion
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  1. Requiring great physical exertion
  2. (Figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
burdensome
Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
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  1. Of or like a burden; arduous or demanding
  2. Weighing much or hard to carry; heavy.
  3. Hard to bear; heavy; oppressive
demanding
Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
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  1. Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
  2. Requiring much effort or attention:
  3. Making difficult or irksome demands on a person's resources, patience, energy, etc.
difficult
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
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  1. Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
  2. Hard to satisfy, persuade, please, etc.
  3. Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
effortful
Requiring or showing effort.
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  1. Requiring or showing effort.
exacting
Requiring precise accuracy
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  1. Requiring precise accuracy
  2. Demanding great care, patience, effort, etc.; arduous
  3. Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
exigent
Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
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  1. Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
  2. Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
  3. Requiring immediate action; pressing:
formidable
Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
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  1. Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
  2. Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
  3. Hard to handle or overcome
hard
Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
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  1. Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
  2. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  3. Marked by stubborn refusal to compromise or yield; uncompromising:
heavy
Hard to endure; oppressive; burdensome; distressing
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  1. Hard to endure; oppressive; burdensome; distressing
  2. Hard to do or accomplish; arduous:
  3. Hard to digest
onerous
Burdensome; laborious
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  1. Burdensome; laborious
  2. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
  3. (Law) Involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits
oppressive
Hard to put up with; causing great discomfort or fatigue
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  1. Hard to put up with; causing great discomfort or fatigue
  2. Burdensome or difficult to bear.
  3. Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
rigorous
Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
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  1. Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
  2. Rigidly precise; thoroughly accurate or exact
  3. Harsh, severe, or demanding:
rough
Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
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  1. Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
  2. Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
  3. Difficult to travel over or through:
severe
Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
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  1. Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
  2. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
  3. Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
taxing
Burdensome; wearing:
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  1. Burdensome; wearing:
  2. With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
tough
Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
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  1. Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
  2. Hard to cut or chew:
  3. Very difficult; toilsome
trying
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
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  1. Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
  2. That tries one's patience; annoying; exasperating; irksome
  3. Difficult to endure; arduous.
weighty
Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
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  1. Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
  2. Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
  3. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
arduous
Using much energy; strenuous
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  1. Using much energy; strenuous
  2. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
  3. Difficult to do; laborious; onerous
difficult
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
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  1. Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
  2. Hard to satisfy, persuade, please, etc.
  3. Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
hard
Written or printed rather than stored in electronic media:
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  1. Written or printed rather than stored in electronic media:
  2. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  3. Definite; firm:
serious
Deeply interested or involved:
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  1. Deeply interested or involved:
  2. Concerned with important rather than trivial matters:
  3. Not easily answered or solved:
tall
Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty:
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  1. Having considerable height, especially in relation to width; lofty:
  2. Impressively great or difficult:
  3. (Informal) Hard to believe because exaggerated or untrue
tough
Hard to convince or influence; stubborn
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  1. Hard to convince or influence; stubborn
  2. Hard to cut or chew:
  3. Very difficult; toilsome
uphill
Going or sloping up; rising
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  1. Going or sloping up; rising
  2. Marked by difficulty or strong resistance; laborious:
  3. Calling for prolonged effort; laborious
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  • Away from his father he maintained his laborious habits.

  • But he was not a laborious student.

  • Yet he did not relax his laborious habits nor his ardent outlook on human affairs.

  • He proved himself to be a painstaking and laborious legislator, and devoted himself specially to the improvement of native schools,.

  • A hundred years later, all churches of any importance had similar indulgences; yet Englishmen were glad even then to earn a pardon of forty days by the laborious journey to the nearest cathedral, and by making an offering there on one of a few privileged feast-days.

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