arduous

/'ɑ:djuəs/

Thân thiện

Preparing a dictionary is an arduous task.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely difficult and requiring great effort or endurance: Describes tasks, work, or activities that are very hard to do, often because they are physically demanding, mentally challenging, or require sustained perseverance.
   • Steep and hard to climb: Used to describe a path or route that is physically difficult to ascend.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The rescue team faced an arduous climb up the mountain.
  • Writing a thesis is an arduous process that takes years.
  • She made the arduous journey on foot.
  • The arduous negotiations finally led to a peace agreement.

Advanced Usage

• "Arduous undertaking/task": A very difficult project or piece of work.
  • Rebuilding the city after the war was an arduous undertaking.
• "Arduous effort": A strenuous and determined attempt.
  • Success was only achieved through arduous effort.

Variants and Related Words

• Arduously (adverb): In a manner requiring strenuous effort.
  • They worked arduously for months to finish the project.
• Arduousness (noun): The quality of being arduous.
  • The arduousness of the expedition tested every member.

Synonyms

• Strenuous: Requiring or using great exertion.
• Laborious: Requiring much hard work.
• Grueling: Extremely tiring and demanding.
• Taxing: Physically or mentally demanding.
• Punishing: Severely demanding.

Antonyms

• Easy: Achieved without great effort.
• Effortless: Requiring no physical or mental exertion.
• Simple: Easily understood or done.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• An uphill battle/struggle: A very difficult task requiring great effort (similar in meaning to an arduous task).
  • Getting the new law passed was an uphill battle.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
   • the arduous work of preparing a dictionary
2. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
   • his final, straining burst of speed
   • a strenuous task
   • your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here- F.D.Roosevelt
3. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• straining
• strenuous