See Also: arduous(dictionary)
arduous(dictionary)

arduous (iou)



arduous adjective. M16.
[from Latin arduus steep, difficult + -OUS.]
Hard to achieve or overcome; difficult, laborious. M16.
Ld Macaulay Such an enterprise would be in the highest degree arduous and hazardous. J. Hilton The next stage..was less arduous than he had been prepared for, and a relief from the lung-bursting strain of the ascent. M. Muggeridge She found riding or pushing her bicycle uphill too arduous.
High; steep. arch. E18.
fig.: Steele To forgive is the most arduous pitch human nature can arrive at.
Of an effort etc., or a person making an exertion: energetic, strenuous. M19.
J. Tyndall An arduous climber. A. J. Cronin The chapel..was the product of prolonged and arduous effort. Partisan Review The arduous theorists of the SPD were steeped in German pedantry.
arduously adverb laboriously, strenuously; with difficulty: E18.
arduousness noun M18.