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Gruelling vs Laborious - What's the difference?

gruelling | laborious |

As adjectives the difference between gruelling and laborious

is that gruelling is so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking while laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

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

    laborious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * labourious * laborous * labourous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
  • *
    • Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious , and short.
  • Mentally difficult; painstaking
  • Industrious.
  • * Dryden
    • All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.

    Synonyms

    * (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksome

    Derived terms

    * laboriously