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1
marked by or uttered with forcefulness
- parents who voiced strenuous objections to the new textbooks
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2
requiring considerable physical or mental effort
- a strenuous workout on the obstacle course
Synonyms for strenuous
- arduous,
- Augean,
- backbreaking,
- challenging,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- grueling
- (or gruelling),
- hard,
- heavy,
- hellacious,
- herculean,
- killer,
- laborious,
- moiling,
- murderous,
- pick-and-shovel,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- severe,
- stiff,
- sweaty,
- tall,
- testing,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- uphill
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- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
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The first known use of strenuous was in 1599
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