Arduous
adjective
Something that is very difficult and requires a lot of effort.
Climbing Everest is an arduous task that requires physical and emotional strength.
Often appears as...
- arduous task
- arduous journey
adjective
Something that is hard to accomplish or achieve.
Writing a novel is an arduous process that takes a lot of time and dedication.
Often appears as...
- arduous process
- arduous work
adjective
Something that is very difficult and requires a lot of effort.
Climbing Everest is an arduous task that requires physical and emotional strength.
Often appears as...
- arduous task
- arduous journey
adjective
Something that is hard to accomplish or achieve.
Writing a novel is an arduous process that takes a lot of time and dedication.
Often appears as...
- arduous process
- arduous work
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Effort
Often implies a task needs considerable physical strength or endurance.
The arduous hike left us exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Can suggest an emotional challenge, not just physical or intellectual.
Recovering from surgery is an arduous journey.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Consuming
Suggests tasks may take a lot of time to complete, often tediously.
Completing this intricate puzzle is an arduous task.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Effort
Often implies a task needs considerable physical strength or endurance.
The arduous hike left us exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Can suggest an emotional challenge, not just physical or intellectual.
Recovering from surgery is an arduous journey.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Consuming
Suggests tasks may take a lot of time to complete, often tediously.
Completing this intricate puzzle is an arduous task.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Effort
Often implies a task needs considerable physical strength or endurance.
The arduous hike left us exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Can suggest an emotional challenge, not just physical or intellectual.
Recovering from surgery is an arduous journey.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Consuming
Suggests tasks may take a lot of time to complete, often tediously.
Completing this intricate puzzle is an arduous task.
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Jeff Bezos: The...
at the present time who feel keenly disappointed. They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover
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Who are you, really? The...
And so I act in an extroverted way, because at eight in the morning, the students need a little bit of humor, a little bit of engagement to keep them going in arduous days of study. But we need to be very careful when we act protractedly out of character.
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How a start-up in the...
But meanwhile, a working mother who depends on food stamps to support her family has to complete an arduous, complicated application which she might not even be able to do online. And the inability of her to do that same work from her couch means
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The perks of being a...
to overcome problems that most people aren't faced with. One of the first lessons that I learned immediately followed the painful and arduous task of learning how to walk again, but it went on to pay dividends for the rest of my life.
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The Japanese folktale of...
The trip was an arduous climb that took all day. But he was glad for the solitude it afforded him, and the peace he felt upon returning home was profound. The scholar was determined to maintain this clarity for as long as possible,
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Diana Nyad: Extreme...
And when you're training for this sport, you are not smiling. It's an arduous, difficult sport, and I don't remember smiling at any time during this sport. As I said, I respect other sports, and I compare this sport sometimes
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Stefan Wolff: The path...
determined and visionary in its commitment to peace. Leaders need to connect to each other and to their followers, and they need to bring them along on what is an often arduous journey into a peaceful future.
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Heartbreaking! Ultimate...
When at last they reach the sea, their journey that, so far, has been merely arduous becomes very dangerous indeed.
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Exorcism in India PIPE...
hope for the possessed in the holy waters of the Ganges a man and his helpers prepare for an arduous task
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Exorcism In India PIPE...
in the holy waters of the Ganges a man and his helpers prepare for an arduous task
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Jeff Bezos: The...
at the present time who feel keenly disappointed. They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover
Video examples
Who are you, really? The...
And so I act in an extroverted way, because at eight in the morning, the students need a little bit of humor, a little bit of engagement to keep them going in arduous days of study. But we need to be very careful when we act protractedly out of character.
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How a start-up in the...
But meanwhile, a working mother who depends on food stamps to support her family has to complete an arduous, complicated application which she might not even be able to do online. And the inability of her to do that same work from her couch means
Video examples
The perks of being a...
to overcome problems that most people aren't faced with. One of the first lessons that I learned immediately followed the painful and arduous task of learning how to walk again, but it went on to pay dividends for the rest of my life.
Video examples
The Japanese folktale of...
The trip was an arduous climb that took all day. But he was glad for the solitude it afforded him, and the peace he felt upon returning home was profound. The scholar was determined to maintain this clarity for as long as possible,
Video examples
Diana Nyad: Extreme...
And when you're training for this sport, you are not smiling. It's an arduous, difficult sport, and I don't remember smiling at any time during this sport. As I said, I respect other sports, and I compare this sport sometimes
Video examples
Stefan Wolff: The path...
determined and visionary in its commitment to peace. Leaders need to connect to each other and to their followers, and they need to bring them along on what is an often arduous journey into a peaceful future.
Video examples
Heartbreaking! Ultimate...
When at last they reach the sea, their journey that, so far, has been merely arduous becomes very dangerous indeed.
Video examples
Exorcism in India PIPE...
hope for the possessed in the holy waters of the Ganges a man and his helpers prepare for an arduous task
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Exorcism In India PIPE...
in the holy waters of the Ganges a man and his helpers prepare for an arduous task
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Tom Hodgkinson
British Writer
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.
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Joss Whedon
American Writer
Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Japanese Soldier
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
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Benjamin Bratt
American Actor
I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Christopher Gadsden
American Soldier
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
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Dennis Lehane
American Author
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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Tom Hodgkinson
British Writer
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.
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Joss Whedon
American Writer
Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Japanese Soldier
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Quote examples
Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
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Benjamin Bratt
American Actor
I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.
Quote examples
Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Christopher Gadsden
American Soldier
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
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Dennis Lehane
American Author
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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Mortimer Adler
American Philosopher
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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