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Strenuous vs Backbreaking - What's the difference?

strenuous | backbreaking |

As adjectives the difference between strenuous and backbreaking

is that strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous while backbreaking is (figuratively) of work, very physically tiring.

strenuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Urgent, ardent, zealous.
  • Requiring great exertion.
  • * 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
    • We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.

    Synonyms

    * earnest * eager * vigorous * determined * resolute

    Derived terms

    * strenuously * strenuousness

    Related terms

    * strenuosity

    External links

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    backbreaking

    English

    Alternative forms

    * back-breaking

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

    • Derived terms

    * backbreakingly