Definition of Arduous

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Arduous

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

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Arduous Quotations

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.
Princess Anne

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
Xenophon

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
Kim Jong Il

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
Derek Jacobi

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
Todd Gitlin

Arduous Translations

arduous in Hungarian is meredek, terhes
arduous in Italian is faticoso, faticoso
arduous in Spanish is arduo, trabajoso, trabajoso
arduous in Swedish is brant

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