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Synonyms for gruelling
gru·elling
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Wiktionary
gruellingadjective
So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
Synonyms:
backbreaking, exhausting
Princeton's WordNet
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective
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"
Synonyms:
backbreaking, sullen, ponderous, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, straining, severe, cloggy, lumbering, large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, voiceless, grievous, tough, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, unvoiced, expectant, concentrated, lowering, surd, heavy(a), sonorous, impenetrable, arduous, operose, strenuous, heavy, heavy(p), big(a), labored, profound, difficult, laboured, punishing, strong, gravid, big(p), leaden, knockoutAntonyms:
effortless
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#596 | hard | |
#803 | sound | |
#1340 | strong | |
#1928 | difficult | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#3964 | severe | |
#4924 | tough | |
#8065 | grave | |
#9770 | dense | |
#9902 | threatening | |
#10268 | concentrated | |
#11321 | profound | |
#12580 | lowering | |
#15613 | overweight | |
#24199 | knockout | |
#32471 | punishing | |
#35229 | strenuous | |
#36511 | straining | |
#37611 | exhausting | |
#38830 | fleshy | |
#38946 | expectant | |
#40529 | grievous | |
#40798 | arduous | |
#48375 | weighty | |
#51185 | impenetrable | |
#52469 | labored | |
#52801 | grueling | |
#53660 | laborious | |
#58451 | sullen | |
#69752 | voiceless | |
#71019 | lumbering | |
#76396 | clayey | |
#77629 | sonorous | |
#78731 | ponderous | |
#84783 | laboured | |
#90856 | gruelling | |
#91829 | leaden | |
#127101 | intemperate | |
#137636 | enceinte | |
#145397 | gravid | |
#180754 | unvoiced | |
#183574 | backbreaking | |
#218887 | toilsome | |
#315651 | surd |
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