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arduous Definition


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arduous
adj
    1. Difficult; needing a lot of work, effort or energy.
      Thesaurus: difficult, hard, strenuous, exhausting, gruelling, laborious, severe, taxing, enervating, draining, rigorous, trying, onerous, formidable; Antonym: easy.
    2. Steep.
Derivative: arduously
adverb
    Derivative: arduousness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c: from Latin arduus steep.



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