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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See HEAVY. 2. Given to acting in opposition to others: balky, contrarious, contrary, froward, impossible, ornery, perverse, wayward. See ATTITUDE, SUPPORT. 3. Not easy to do, achieve, or master: arduous, hard, laborious, serious, tall, tough, uphill. See EASY. 4. Causing difficulty, trouble, or discomfort: incommodious, inconvenient, troublesome. See COMFORT.
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