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- Dictionaryarduous/ˈɑːdjʊəs/
adjective
- 1. involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring: "an arduous journey"
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difficult and tiring, or needing a great deal of effort: In those days, a trip to the West was an arduous journey.
The meaning of ARDUOUS is hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult. How to use arduous in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Arduous.
difficult and tiring, or needing a great deal of effort: In those days, a trip to the West was an arduous journey.
Arduous definition: requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult. See examples of ARDUOUS used in a sentence.
difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill. “the arduous work of preparing a dictionary” synonyms: difficult, hard. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure. adjective. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance.
Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort. ...a long, hot and arduous journey. The task was more arduous than he had calculated.
1. requiring great physical or mental effort; difficult to accomplish; strenuous. 2. hard to endure; harsh: arduous conditions. 3. hard to overcome or surmount; steep or difficult: an arduous track. [C16: from Latin arduus steep, difficult] ˈarduously adv. ˈarduousness n.