backbreakingadjective
uk/ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/needing a lot of hard, physical effort and making you feel extremely tired:
Digging the vegetable garden was backbreaking work.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- gruelling
- murky
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- schlep
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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