Synonyms: effortful
Definition: requiring great physical effort
Similar words: heavy, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, backbreaking, arduous, toilsome, operose, punishing
Definition: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Usage: 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
Similar words: dragging
Definition: marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
Usage: it was a strange dragging approach; years of dragging war
Similar words: wearing, wearying, exhausting, tiring
Definition: producing exhaustion
Usage: an exhausting march; the visit was especially wearing
Similar words: heavy, labored, laboured
Definition: requiring or showing effort
Usage: heavy breathing; the subject made for labored reading
Similar words: labor-intensive, labour-intensive
Definition: requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital
Usage: cottage industries are labor intensive
Similar words: leaden, plodding
Definition: (of movement) slow and laborious
Usage: leaden steps
Similar words: Sisyphean
Definition: both extremely effortful and futile
Similar words: arduous, straining, strenuous
Definition: taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
Usage: his final, straining burst of speed; a strenuous task; your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here- F.D.Roosevelt