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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]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

backbreaking
    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:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "backbreaking":
   Herculean, annoying, arduous, besetting, bothersome, burdensome,
   crushing, effortful, forced, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought,
   heavy, hefty, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous,
   operose, oppressive, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained,
   strenuous, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious,
   wearisome