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adjective
- 1. extremely tiring and demanding: "a gruelling schedule"
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GRUELLING definition: extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination: . Learn more.
adjective. gru· el· ing ˈgrü-ə-liŋ. variants or gruelling. Synonyms of grueling. : trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing. a grueling race. gruelingly. ˈgrü-ə-liŋ-lē. adverb. Synonyms. arduous. Augean. backbreaking. challenging. demanding. difficult. effortful. exacting. formidable. hard. heavy. hellacious. herculean. killer.
extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination: Runners are taking part in a grueling 100-mile race in the mountains above Los Angeles. He eventually won the match after five grueling sets. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Complicated and difficult to do. advanced. ambitiously. another. arduous. formidable.
Definition of gruelling adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. severe or tiring. a gruelling interview. noun. 2. informal. a severe experience, esp punishment. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C19: from now obsolete vb gruel to exhaust, punish. Examples of 'gruelling' in a sentence. gruelling.
Gruelling definition: severe or tiring. See examples of GRUELLING used in a sentence.
If a race is grueling, that means it is really difficult. If a trip to the dentist is grueling, that means you need to toughen up. Once upon a time in a land far far away (like eighteenth century England) there was an expression, to “get one’s gruel,” which meant “receive one’s punishment.”.
extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination: Runners are taking part in a grueling 100-mile race in the mountains above Los Angeles. He eventually won the match after five grueling sets. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Complicated and difficult to do. advanced. ambitiously. another. arduous. formidable.
Grueling definition: exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe. See examples of GRUELING used in a sentence.
Definitions of gruelling. adjective. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome. effortful.
