arduousness
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ar·du·ous
(är′jo͞o-əs)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.
[From Latin arduus, high, steep.]
ar′du·ous·ly adv.
ar′du·ous·ness n.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort |
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Translations
مَشَقَّة، إرهاق
obtížnostpracnost
besvær
erfiîismunir
arduousness
[ˈɑːdjʊəsnɪs] N [of work, task] → lo arduo; [of climb, journey] → lo arduo, lo penoso; [of conditions] → lo riguroso, lo duroCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
arduousness
n → Beschwerlichkeit f; (of task) → Mühseligkeit f; because of the arduousness of the work → weil die Arbeit so anstrengend war/ist
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
arduous
(ˈaːdjuəs) , ((American) -dʒu-) adjective difficult; needing hard work. an arduous task.
ˈarduously adverbˈarduousness noun
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