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US
/ˈɑɹdʒuəs/
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[ UK /ˈɑːdjuːəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈɑːdjuːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
a strenuous task
your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here
his final, straining burst of speed -
difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
the arduous work of preparing a dictionary -
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
worked their arduous way up the mining valley
heavy going
hard labor
heavy work
set a punishing pace
a grueling campaign
spent many laborious hours on the project
How To Use arduous In A Sentence
- Although he has been part of several groups in his various adventures in the past, he has spent a great deal of these arduous treks in the company of Sir Ranulf Ffiennes.
- The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
- At 19, she dropped out of college and spent five months on the arduous trek. Times, Sunday Times
- However, the arduousness of this process, and the attempts to block it, should not be forgotten.
- He laughs as he recalls a particularly arduous day on location, trying to take some gear off a make-up girl for a long trudge up a hillside for the next scene, and being told off for it.
- This is a long and arduous task, one that the authorities admit has had only very limited success to date.
- He finds writing and directing arduous and resents financiers for what he sees as their wilful ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
- In the film "Becoming Chaz," a documentary about Chaz Bono's female-to-male FTM gender reassignment that aired in May on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the arduous trek of coming out as transgender was captured. Irene Monroe: Chaz Comes Out Dancing
- His skill at producing a sparkling lecture after a long and arduous journey was much admired. Times, Sunday Times
- It is tough on Maloney that the arduous assignment of a UEFA Cup tie at home to VfB Stuttgart is being billed as if it were the equivalent of finishing school for the player.