backbreaking English

Meaning backbreaking meaning

What does backbreaking mean?

backbreaking

— adjective (= arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing) characterized by 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

Synonyms backbreaking synonyms

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toilsome

punishing

laborious

heavy

gruelling

arduous

operose

onerous

hard

grueling

exhausting

weighty

weighted

wearisome

very hard

unbearable

tough

toiling

tireful

ponderous

plodding

painstaking

painful

lumbering

leaden

laboursome

labourious

labouring

laboring

heavy-duty

excessive

drudging