Definitions for ARDUOUS
ˈɑr dʒu əs; esp. Brit. ˈɑr dyu-ar·du·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

   characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

2. arduous, straining, strenuousadjective

   taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance

   "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt

3. arduousadjective

   difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill

   "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. arduousadjective

   Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.

   The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.

2. arduousadjective

   burning; ardent

   Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. uE000153782uE001 Cary.

3. arduousadjective

   Difficult or exhausting to traverse.

4. Etymology: From arduus, akin to Irish ard.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ARDUOUSadjective

   Etymology: arduus, Lat.

   1. Lofty; hard to climb.

   High on Parnassus’ top her sons she show’d,
   And pointed out those arduous paths they trod. Alexander Pope.

   2. Difficult.

   It was a means to bring him up in the school of arts and policy, and so to fit him for that great and arduous employment that God designed him to. South.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Arduousadjective

   steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb

2. Arduousadjective

   attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Arduous

   ärd′ū-us, adj. deep, difficult to climb: difficult to accomplish: laborious.—adv. Ard′uously.—n. Ard′uousness. [L. arduus, high; cog. with Celt. ard, high.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ARDUOUS in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ARDUOUS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ARDUOUS in a Sentence

1. Serena Williams:

   This is only my second serious tournament back, i worked really, really hard (to get back playing) and it's been a long, arduous road but I always expected to come out and do the best I can do.

2. Vladimir Lenin:

   You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

3. Ling Chengxing:

   We must note that smoking has hundreds of years of history and objectively a market demand for cigarettes still exists, tobacco control is long term, complex and arduous work, and one-sided, absolutist and expansionist tendencies should be carefully avoided.

4. Mark Mylod:

   I ’m so proud that the work of our whole team both in front of and behind the camera is recognized so warmly today by the Academy's nominations, today’s all night shooting schedule will feel a little less arduous with Fox News Digital.

5. Jim Ritterbusch:

   Predicting short-term price swings has become extremely difficult given the arduous process of predicting the impact of the Delta variant on forward global oil demand, particularly in countries such as China where data is much less transparent than that of the U.S..

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ARDUOUS
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arduous
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ARDUOUS
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ARDUOUS
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ARDUOUS