Arduous vs Puzzling - What's the difference?
arduous | puzzling | Related terms |
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
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(obsolete) burning; ardent
(rft-sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
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Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
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Arduous is a related term of puzzling.
As adjectives the difference between arduous and puzzling
is that arduous is needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance while puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.As a verb puzzling is
.As a noun puzzling is
time spent pondering something confusing.arduous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
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- Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.
- Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
- Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
- Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.