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

arduousness - extreme effortfulness

strenuousness

effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort

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 duro

Collins 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

arduousness

[ˈɑːdjʊəsnɪs] n → difficoltà f inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

arduous

(ˈaːdjuəs) , ((American) -dʒu-) adjective

difficult; needing hard work. an arduous task.

ˈarduously adverb

ˈarduousness noun

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