arduousness

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ar·du·ous (är

adj.

1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult: "the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language" (Thomas Macaulay).

2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous: a long, arduous, and exhausting war.

3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount. See Synonyms at burdensome, hard.

[From Latin arduus, high, steep.]

ardu·ous·ly adv.

ardu·ous·ness n.

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Noun

arduousness - extreme effortfulness

strenuousness

effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort

Translations

arduousness [ˈɑːdjʊəsnɪs] N [of work, task] → lo arduo; [of climb, journey] → lo arduo, lo penoso; [of conditions] → lo riguroso, lo duro

arduousness

n → Beschwerlichkeit f; (of task) → Mühseligkeit f; because of the arduousness of the work → weil die Arbeit so anstrengend war/ist

arduousness [ˈɑːdjʊəsnɪs] n → difficoltà f inv

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