backbreaking
adjective
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- adjective
- adverb
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Sense 1 adjective
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
worked their arduous way up the mining valley
Related & opposite
- toil derivation
- arduousness derivation
- laboriousness derivation
- ruggedness derivation
- burdensomeness derivation
- effortful similar to
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | toil |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arduousness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | laboriousness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ruggedness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | burdensomeness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | effortful |