Today we will learn about other ways to say ‘difficult’.
Do you know some synonyms of ‘difficult’?

Let’s start.

• Arduous: hard to accomplish or achieve; needing a lot of effort and energy.

E.g. “She took the arduous task and devote her heart and soul to it.”

• Toilsome: involving hard or difficult work, or great effort.

E.g. “Housework after a long journey is toilsome.”

• Strenuous: something that takes a lot of effort, work or energy to do.

E.g. “The doctor advised my brother to avoid strenuous exercise.”

• Operose: involving or displaying much industry or effort.

E.g. “The expanding process of my company is too slow and operose.”

• Grueling: extremely tiring and demanding.

E.g. “The freshmen were put through a week of grueling endurance tests.”

• Laboriuos: requiring considerable effort and time (especislly of a task, process, or journey).

E.g. “Collecting the experiment materials is a long and laborious task.”

Compiled and written by @sherlydarmali for @EnglishTips4U on Sunday, April 28, 2019.