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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, exhausting |
| Synonyms: | Herculean, arduous, backbreaking, bothersome, burdensome, complicated, demanding, difficile, distressing, effortful, exacting, fatiguing, formidable, grinding, hairy*, heavy*, intricate, involved, irksome, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, merciless, murder, onerous, operose, rigorous, rough, rugged, scabrous, serious, severe, slavish, sticky, strenuous, terrible, tiring, toilful, toilsome, tough, troublesome, unsparing, uphill battle, uphill, wearing, wearisome, wearying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, mild, simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hard work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult labor |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking work, donkeywork, drudgery, hard way, labor, long haul, tough grind, uphill battle |
| Main Entry: | uphill struggle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult project |
| Synonyms: | difficult task, hard work, tall order, tough assignment, uphill battle |
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