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Antonyms for grueling


Grammar : Adj
Spell : groo-uh-ling, groo-ling
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgru ə lɪŋ, ˈgru lɪŋ



Definition of grueling

  • adj difficult, taxing
Example sentences :
  • Not one day, scarcely one hour had been free of grueling labor.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of the White Sturgeon » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • It isn't a grueling competition like the 'Open' or even the 'Limit.'
  • Extract from : « Lad: A Dog » by Albert Payson Terhune
  • However, it was at Pond Farm we had some of our most grueling experiences.
  • Extract from : « Private Peat » by Harold R. Peat
  • I had a grueling battle with him, and at the end of two hours and fifty minutes he broke my hook.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • With him to show the way the swamp became merely a hard, grueling mush through boggy lowlands.
  • Extract from : « The Yukon Trail » by William MacLeod Raine
  • Those three hours had been the most torturing and grueling of their entire lives.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Casablanca » by Robert Sydney Bowen
  • Used chiefly by newspaper reporters; as, "He was subjected to a grueling cross-examination."
  • Extract from : « Write It Right » by Ambrose Bierce
  • He put me through a hard, grueling work-out, showing me how to snap the ball; how to charge and body check.
  • Extract from : « Football Days » by William H. Edwards
  • If he was rested that day, on the morrow he would be fit for the grueling work possibly in store for him.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories » by Various
  • Despite the grueling toil, Snowdrift found time nearly every day to slip up and visit Brent's cabin.
  • Extract from : « Snowdrift » by James B. Hendryx

Synonyms for grueling

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