| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying. See HEAVY. 2. Having too much flesh: corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshy, gross, obese, overblown, overweight, porcine, portly, stout. See FAT. 3. Having great consequence or weight: earnest1, grave2, heavy, momentous, serious, severe. See IMPORTANT. 4. Having a relatively great weight: heavy, heavyweight, hefty, massive, ponderous. See HEAVY. 5. Having or exercising influence: consequential, important, influential, powerful. See AFFECT, IMPORTANT, STRONG.
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