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| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
difficult, laborious |
| Synonyms: |
arduous, backbreaking, baffling,
burdensome,
demanding, effortful,
exacting, exhausting,
exigent,
grievous,
hairy*, handful,
hard,
heavy,
intractable,
intricate,
irksome, knotty, labored,
mean, no piece of cake,
onerous,
oppressive,
perplexing, puzzling, resisting,
severe,
stiff,
strenuous, taxing, thorny, toilsome,
troublesome,
trying,
unyielding, uphill, weighty,
wicked
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| Antonyms: |
controllable, easy, facile
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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