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Trying vs Gruelling - What's the difference?

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Trying is a related term of gruelling.


As adjectives the difference between trying and gruelling

is that trying is difficult to endure; arduous while gruelling is so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

As a verb trying

is .

As a noun trying

is (philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt.

trying

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • *1891 , Conan Doyle,
  • *:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
  • Irritating, stressful or bothersome.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
    • In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

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    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