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Gruelling vs Disquieting - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between gruelling and disquieting

is that gruelling is so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking while disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

As a verb disquieting is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun disquieting is

the act by which someone or something is disquieted.

gruelling

English

Alternative forms

* grueling

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

    • Synonyms

    * (so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted) backbreaking, exhausting

    disquieting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
  • * Edward Reynolds
    • Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience