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Arduous vs Unfathomable - What's the difference?

arduous | unfathomable | Related terms |

Arduous is a related term of unfathomable.


As adjectives the difference between arduous and unfathomable

is that arduous is needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance while unfathomable is impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.

arduous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
  • The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chelsea survived and can now turn their attentions to the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in Germany later this month as they face an increasingly arduous task to finish in the Premier League's top four.}}
  • (obsolete) burning; ardent
  • Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.
  • (rft-sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
  • * 1974 , Sue Bowder, The American biking atlas & touring guide , page 77:
  • Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
  • * 1999 , Scott Ciencin, Mike Fredericks, Dinoverse :
  • Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
  • * 2006 , Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006 :
  • Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.

    Synonyms

    * burdensome * demanding * exhausting * fatiguing * laborious * onerous * strenuous * wearisome

    unfathomable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
  • The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.}}
  • Difficult to penetrate.
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