Adjective

(en adjective)

Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.

The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.

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(obsolete) burning; ardent

Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.

(rft-sense) 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.

Adjective

(complex number) (en adjective)

Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

a complex''' being; a '''complex idea

* John Locke

Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex ; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.

Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.

* Whewell

When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex .

(mathematics) Of a number, of the form a + bi'', where ''a'' and ''b'' are real numbers and ''i is a square root of −1.

complex function

(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.