arduous
difficult and time-consuming
TRANSLATION
arduous = anstrengend, schwer, ausdauernd, mühsam, mühselig arduous path = steiler Pfad, mühsamer Weg --- GOOGLE INDEX arduous: approximately 6,400,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Ethiopian integration into Israeli society is proving an ARDUOUS process.
(The International Herald Tribune)
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Muslims from around the world have made annual pilgrimages to Mecca for the past 14 centuries. In the past this was a very ARDUOUS journey, undertaken once in a lifetime, on foot or horseback.
(Travel and Leisure Magazine
(The International Herald Tribune)
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Muslims from around the world have made annual pilgrimages to Mecca for the past 14 centuries. In the past this was a very ARDUOUS journey, undertaken once in a lifetime, on foot or horseback.
(Travel and Leisure Magazine
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arduous
adjective
1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult.
2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous.
3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.)
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WORD ORIGIN
Arduous (circa 1538) derives from the Latin arduus, meaning high, steep or difficult to climb. The metaphorical sense of difficult was first recorded around 1713.
In the quest to test its own limits, mankind has undertaken many arduous journeys. One of the most memorable in modern times is Sir Edmund Hillary's trek to the top of the world, Mt. Everest. On May 29, 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain.
At that time, their feat was considered an accomplishment of heroic proportions. Mt. Everest, at 29,028 feet (8,848 meters) high, presents a formidable challenge due to the extremely thin air at the higher levels (Hillary and Norgay used bottled oxygen) and the dangerous storms that can unexpectedly develop.
Meanwhile, more than 1,500 people from 64 different countries have made the ascent.
On May 8, 1978, Tyrolean mountain climbing legend Reinhold Messner, together with climbing partner Peter Habeler, was the first to reach the peak of Mt. Everest without supplementary oxygen. Messner returned to Everest in 1980 and became the first person to make a solo ascent without supplementary oxygen.
Messner was also the first to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000 metre peaks.
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SYNONYMS
backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, gruelling, harsh, heavy, laboured, laborious, murder, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill
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ANTONYMS
easy, painless, simple
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"Opening up the Chinese market was the most arduous project we have ever undertaken, but it's beginning to pay off now."
adjective
1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult.
2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous.
3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.)
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WORD ORIGIN
Arduous (circa 1538) derives from the Latin arduus, meaning high, steep or difficult to climb. The metaphorical sense of difficult was first recorded around 1713.
In the quest to test its own limits, mankind has undertaken many arduous journeys. One of the most memorable in modern times is Sir Edmund Hillary's trek to the top of the world, Mt. Everest. On May 29, 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain.
At that time, their feat was considered an accomplishment of heroic proportions. Mt. Everest, at 29,028 feet (8,848 meters) high, presents a formidable challenge due to the extremely thin air at the higher levels (Hillary and Norgay used bottled oxygen) and the dangerous storms that can unexpectedly develop.
Meanwhile, more than 1,500 people from 64 different countries have made the ascent.
On May 8, 1978, Tyrolean mountain climbing legend Reinhold Messner, together with climbing partner Peter Habeler, was the first to reach the peak of Mt. Everest without supplementary oxygen. Messner returned to Everest in 1980 and became the first person to make a solo ascent without supplementary oxygen.
Messner was also the first to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000 metre peaks.
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SYNONYMS
backbreaking, burdensome, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, gruelling, harsh, heavy, laboured, laborious, murder, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill
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ANTONYMS
easy, painless, simple
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"Opening up the Chinese market was the most arduous project we have ever undertaken, but it's beginning to pay off now."
