Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
- 2adjective
Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
- 3adjective
difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
"the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"
- 4adjective
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
"worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
"a grueling campaign"
- 5adjective
taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance- F.D.Roosevelt
"his final, straining burst of speed"
"a strenuous task"
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