arduous

arduous is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
2. adjective. Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
3. adjective. difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill

   "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"

4. adjective. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"

   "a grueling campaign"

   Synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome

5. adjective. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance- F.D.Roosevelt

   "his final, straining burst of speed"

   "a strenuous task"

   Synonyms: straining, strenuous

Synonyms

backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome, straining, strenuous

Common word forms

arduously, arduousness

Words from these letters

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