arduously
1
7.8
- adverb
- /ˈɑrdʒuəsli/
:
arduamente
- He trained arduously every day to prepare for the marathon.
- arduously negotiated
Examples
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The first complicating factor is the time lag between when nations first start to impinge on each other's water planning and when agreements are finally, arduously, reached.
Academic text (2008) -
Indeed, the Soviets tried arduously to befriend Iran, perhaps on the assumption that if Iran loathed the United States, it would embrace the Soviets.
Academic text (1990) -
What will anyone have gained but the right to define themselves, the right for which radical feminists so arduously fight?
Blog text (23) -
A resurgent left slowly and arduously regathers people and resources to organize itself into a social force.
Blog text (23) -
She primarily traveled there in order to improve her children's English ability, but she emphasized to Park that she also studied English arduously there.
Academic text (2004) -
Panama's mudslides continually refilled the space so arduously opened by men and machines.
Academic text (2003) -
No matter how arduously it tries, the United States cannot emulate that, especially if Canada breaks into a number of contentious pieces, each looking for a degree of harmony and support that has since disappeared.
Academic text (1996) -
Sometimes a simplistic, intellectually unsatisfying answer is more useful than an arduously thought-out but ambiguous one.
Academic text (2000) -
Crying and terrified, the young man climbed the wall, painfully and arduously—for his very life now depended upon it.
Fiction book (1992) -
To be in earnest morally meant to recognize life as something more elevated and more serious than moneymaking and sensual gratification; it meant asserting an absolute and transcendent moral and spiritual order and struggling arduously against the forces of evil, both in one's own soul and in society.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
38
4.1
In a careful and steady way that shows hard work
27
3.5
In a way that shows steady energy and does not slow down
24
4.0
To do something with great force or effort
12
5.5
With great effort and determination
8
3.9
With a lot of effort and attention
5
7.7
To do something carefully and with steady effort
5
6.6
With a lot of effort in a slow, tiring way
1
3.7
To work very hard and carefully
1
7.7
You do something with great effort that makes you very tired
In a way that uses a lot of physical or mental energy
To do something with careful and steady effort over time
In a way that keeps working without getting tired
In a steady, determined way without giving up when things are difficult
Antonyms
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Arduously comes from the Latin word arduus, which meant 'steep' or 'high'. Think of a hard task as 'climbing a steep hill' because it takes a lot of effort, and that is why to do something arduously is to do it with great effort and not giving up.