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grueling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective grueling has 1 sense
- grueling(s = adj.all) arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
CIDE DICTIONARY
grueling, adj.
characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
grueling
Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, devitalizing, disciplinary, draining, effortful, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, inflictive, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, penal, penological, plaguey, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, sapping, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying
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