All backbreaking synonyms
back·break·ing
B b adj backbreaking
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- arduous — Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort.
- grueling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- punishing — causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal: The storm was accompanied by punishing winds.
- taxing — wearingly burdensome: the day-to-day, taxing duties of a supervisor.
- toilsome — characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
adjective backbreaking
- strenuous — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.