arduous
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7.7
- adjective
- /ˈɑrdʒuəs/
:
arduo
- Completing the marathon was an arduous test of endurance and strength.
- an arduous journey
- an arduous task
- an arduous process
This is going to be a long, arduous process.
- This is going to be a long, arduous process.
- So translating myself is that it is quite, it is arduous and bewildering for me.
- It's been years of what must feel like an arduous battle for you.
- And let's not make it such an arduous process.
- Years of keen study and arduous work are essential.
- You go through the arduous process of healing from narcissistic abuse.
- Is it just making decisions less arduous?
- Sometimes you can expedite pieces of it, but the overall journey is arduous and long and difficult.
- Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience is going to be a long and arduous process.
- So one way of doing it was to join the reserve SAS, which was arduous.
- What did you feel that you needed to tie up or finish or, or add or I mean, editing is arduous and crazy.
Examples
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For Ryan, the first day of sixth grade marked the start of a long and arduous personal journey.
Academic text (2013) -
But it was an incredibly arduous journey to get to this place every day.
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This is going to be a long, arduous process.
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It's been years of what must feel like an arduous battle for you.
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Your long, arduous journey is over.
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Years of keen study and arduous work are essential.
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The approval process for strategic plans can be arduous, but it will ensure commitment to a single vision.
Academic text (1993) -
If the snow kept up, even getting back to Cold Spring might be an arduous undertaking.
Fiction book (1999) -
Performance assessment does not have to be a long, arduous process if it is part of the everyday classroom routine.
Academic text (2012) -
Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience is going to be a long and arduous process.
Synonyms
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1.1
Needing a lot of effort and often strict or severe
∞
1.6
Not easy to do or understand
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2.1
Hard to do or understand
183
4.4
Hard to do and needing a lot of effort
92
3.2
To make you feel very tired
84
3.9
Needing a lot of skill, effort, or money to succeed
34
4.9
Needing a lot of effort or energy
30
7.0
Very hard and tiring, needing a lot of physical effort
18
7.1
Causing a lot of extra work or worry
15
5.3
Needing a lot of work by people rather than machines
14
5.3
Very difficult and needing a lot of strength to keep going
11
8.4
Very difficult and needing great strength or effort
10
6.8
A task or process that needs a lot of time and hard work
5
6.8
Needing a lot of physical or mental effort
4
5.3
A situation or task that is hard to do
1
6.9
Needing a lot of physical or mental work
1
5.8
Very hard physical work that makes your body tired
1
5.0
Needing a lot of effort and making you very tired
1
5.1
Hard to deal with and making people feel tired or annoyed
1
8.9
Needing a lot of hard work and making you tired
Hard to do and leaves you very tired
Needing a lot of hard work and careful attention
Needing a lot of time, effort, or attention
Antonyms
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
arduous = ardu + ous
Although the suffix '-ous' is productive, the stem 'ardu' is not a recognizable modern English base, so learners cannot derive the meaning from known English components.
Etymology
Arduous comes from the old Latin word arduus, which meant 'steep' or 'hard to climb'. So an arduous task is like climbing a very steep hill: it is very difficult and needs a lot of effort.