exhausting tiring wearing wearying
- exhausting tiring wearing wearying
- effortful effortful adj.
1. requiring great physical effort. Opposite of {effortless}.
[Narrower terms: {arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking,
grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome}; {exhausting,
tiring, wearing, wearying}] Also See: {difficult}, {hard}.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
2000.
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