Drudging
41tiresome — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, annoying, bland, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, common, commonplace, difficult, disagreeable, disturbing, draining, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing,… …
42tiring — Synonyms and related words: boresome, boring, draining, drudging, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, grueling, irksome, killing, punishing, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tedious, tiresome, toilsome, trying, weariful,… …
43working — Synonyms and related words: accomplishment, acetification, acidification, acidulation, act, acting, action, active, activism, activity, agency, alive, alkalization, answer, ascertainment, at it, at work, banausic, barmy, behavior, behavioral,… …
44drudge — (n.) late 15c., one employed in mean, servile, or distasteful work, missing in O.E. and M.E. (but Cf. M.E. druggen do menial or monotonous work; druggunge, mid 13c., in Barnhart), but apparently related to O.E. dreogan to work, suffer, endure… …
45slavish — a. 1. Servile, low, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, sneaking, beggarly, base minded, low minded. 2. Drudging, laborious, menial, servile …
46hack — adj hireling, *mercenary, venal Analogous words: toiling, drudging, grinding, laboring (see corresponding nouns at WORK): hired, employed (see HIRE vb): *mean, abject, sordid …
47busy — adj .1. occupied, engaged, employed, working, at work, on duty, at it; taken, in use, tied down or up; engrossed, absorbed, involved, intent, preoccupied, diverted; diligent, assiduous, industrious, laboring, toiling, grinding, drudging, slaving …
48drudge — /drʌdʒ / (say druj) noun 1. someone who labours at servile or uninteresting tasks; a hard toiler. –verb (i) (drudged, drudging) 2. to perform servile, distasteful, or hard work. {? Middle English drugge drag, pull heavily, Old English dreōgan… …
49boring — [adj] uninteresting arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer*, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth eaten*, mundane, nothing,… …
50tedious — [adj] dull, monotonous annoying, arid, banal, boring, bromidic, drab, dragging, draggy*, dreary, drudging, dry, dull as dishwater*, dusty*, endless, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho hum*, humdrum, insipid, irksome, laborious, lifeless,… …
