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English
Etymology
From Latin arduus (“lofty, high, steep, hard to reach, difficult, laborious”), akin to Irish ard (“high”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
arduous (comparative more arduous, superlative most arduous)
- Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:Chelsea survived and can now turn their attentions to the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Germany later this month as they face an increasingly arduous task to finish in the Premier League's top four.
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- (obsolete) burning; ardent
- 1805-1814, Dante, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy
Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore.
- Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
1974, Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide, page 77:Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
1999, Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse:Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
2006, Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006:Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.
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needing or using up much energy
- Arabic: شَاق (šāq)
- Bulgarian: труден (bg) (truden), усилен (bg) (usilen), мъчен (bg) (mǎčen)
- Catalan: ardu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 艱苦/艰苦 (gaan1 fu2), 艱巨/艰巨 (gaan1 geoi6)
- Mandarin: 艱苦/艰苦 (zh) (jiānkǔ), 艱巨/艰巨 (zh) (jiānjù)
- Danish: anstrengende, besværlig (da)
- Dutch: uitputtend (nl), zwaar (nl), moeizaam (nl)
- Finnish: vaivalloinen (fi), työläs (fi), uuvuttava (fi), rasittava (fi), ankara (fi)
- French: ardu (fr)
- German: mühsam (de), anstrengend (de), beschwerlich (de), erschöpfend (de)
- Hungarian: megerőltető (hu), fárasztó (hu), fáradságos (hu)
- Italian: arduo (it)
- Japanese: 苦しい (ja) (くるしい, kurushii), 難儀な (ja) (なんぎな, nangi-na)
- Korean: 고난의 (ko) (gonan-ui), 힘드는 (himdeuneun)
- Norwegian: slitsom, vanskelig (no)
- Polish: uciążliwy (pl), arcytrudny (pl)
- Portuguese: árduo (pt)
- Russian: напряжённый (ru) (naprjažónnyj), тру́дный (ru) (trúdnyj), тяжёлый (ru) (tjažólyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: mukotrpan (sh)
- Spanish: arduo (es), riguroso (es)
- Swedish: arbetsam (sv), besvärlig (sv), jobbig (sv), ansträngande (sv), avancerad (sv), krånglig (sv), svår (sv)
- Turkish: ağır (tr), çetin (tr), gayretli (tr), güç (tr), zor (tr)
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Further reading
- “arduous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “arduous”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “arduous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.