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Synonyms for back-breaking

  • adjective

Most common

arduous grueling laborious gruelling punishing burdensome toilsome

All synonyms

Adjective

arduous, laborious, grueling, hard, heavy, gruelling, burdensome, punishing, effortful, toilsome, herculean, onerous, wearisome, operose dated, breakbone rare, breakback rare

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Of work, very physically tiring.

Related words

Other spellings
backbreaking

Example sentences

  • arduous She went through a long and arduous vocational course.
  • grueling Fyodor endured the noise for ten grueling minutes.
  • punishing Maybe God is punishing Yanni for doing drugs.
  • burdensome I appreciated her kindness, while I feel it burdensome.

By length

4 letters
hard1
5 letters
heavy2
7 letters
arduous3, onerous3, operose
8 letters
grueling3, toilsome
9 letters
punishing3, laborious4, gruelling, herculean4, wearisome3, effortful, breakbone, breakback
10 letters
burdensome3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (heavy2 = 2 syllables).