Gruelling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  grueling \grueling\, gruelling \gruelling\adj.
     1. characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme
        physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign.
  
     Syn: arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, exhausting,
          gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,


          punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gruelling
       adj : characterized by toilsome 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"
             [syn: {arduous}, {backbreaking}, {grueling}, {hard}, {heavy},
              {laborious}, {punishing}, {toilsome}]