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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
- Example: "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
- Example: "a grueling campaign"
- Example: "hard labor"
- Example: "heavy work"
- Example: "heavy going"
- Example: "spent many laborious hours on the project"
- Example: "set a punishing pace"
[syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

grueling \grueling\, gruelling \gruelling\adj.
   1. characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme
      physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign.

   Syn: arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, exhausting,
        gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
        punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome.
        [WordNet 1.5]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

grueling
    adj 1: 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" [syn: arduous,
           backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
           laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "grueling":
   Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome,
   burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective,
   crushing, devitalizing, disciplinary, draining, effortful,
   enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced,
   hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, inflictive, irksome,
   killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful,
   penal, penological, plaguey, punishing, punitive, punitory,
   retributive, sapping, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful,
   tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill,
   vexatious, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying