Synonyms for herculean
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Colossal
colossal, enormous, immense, gigantic, huge, titanic, mighty, monstrous, elephantine, cyclopean, gargantuan, mammoth, stupendous, prodigious
2. Difficult
difficult, arduous, laborious, hard, powerful, troublesome, muscular, toilsome, back-breaking, grueling, onerous, wearisome, burdensome, punishing, operose dated
Other
Example sentences
- enormous She lives alone in a house of enormous dimensions.
- immense Sailors spend weeks or months in the immense ocean.
- gigantic The Algiers Grand Mosque is a gigantic structure.
- colossal The project required a colossal amount of funding.
- difficult Explain to him the difficult situation you are in.
- arduous She went through a long and arduous vocational course.
By length
- 4 letters
- hard1, huge1
- 6 letters
- mighty2
- 7 letters
- immense2, titanic3, mammoth2, arduous3, onerous3, operose
- 8 letters
- powerful3, enormous3, muscular3, gigantic3, colossal3, grueling3, toilsome
- 9 letters
- difficult3, punishing3, monstrous2, laborious4, wearisome3, cyclopean4
- 10 letters
- superhuman4, prodigious3, burdensome3, stupendous3, gargantuan4
- 11 letters
- troublesome3, elephantine4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (mighty2 = 2 syllables).