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- DictionaryAr·du·ous/ˈärjəwəs/
adjective
- 1. involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring: "an arduous journey"
Arduous means hard to accomplish or achieve, marked by great labor or effort, or hard to climb. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and etymology from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Arduous means difficult, needing a lot of effort and energy. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, see synonyms and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”. synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome. effortful.
adjective. requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking. Synonyms: exhausting, burdensome, wearisome, onerous, toilsome, hard. Antonyms: easy. requiring or using much energy and vigor; strenuous: making an arduous effort. hard to climb; steep: an arduous path up the hill.
Arduous means difficult, needing a lot of effort and energy. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, see synonyms and examples, and compare with related words.
Arduous means difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, with synonyms and examples from Collins English Dictionary.
Arduous means demanding great effort or labor; difficult. It comes from Latin arduus, meaning high, steep, or hard to reach. See synonyms, antonyms, and sentence examples of arduous.