| Meaning | requiring great physical effort. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | Sisyphean | both extremely effortful and futile |
| arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome | Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion | |
| arduous, straining, strenuous | taxing to the utmost | |
| dragging | marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | |
| exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying | producing exhaustion | |
| heavy, labored, laboured | requiring or showing effort | |
| labor-intensive, labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital | |
| leaden, plodding | (of movement) slow and laborious | |
| See also | difficult, hard | not easy |
| Opposite | effortless | requiring or apparently requiring no effort |
| Nouns | effortfulness | the quality of requiring deliberate effort |
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