Antonyms for gruelinggru·el·ing

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1. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

   characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

   Antonyms:
   effortless

   Synonyms:
   backbreaking, sullen, ponderous, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, with child(p), threatening, grave, straining, severe, cloggy, lumbering, large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, voiceless, grievous, tough, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, unvoiced, gruelling, expectant, concentrated, lowering, surd, heavy(a), sonorous, impenetrable, arduous, operose, strenuous, heavy, heavy(p), big(a), labored, profound, difficult, laboured, punishing, strong, gravid, big(p), leaden, knockout

How to use grueling in a sentence?

1. Dave Lancaster:

   Dave Lancaster shed the pounds with a grueling walking routine fueled by Weetabix, fresh fruit and vegetables and lean meat and fish. Dave Lancaster started small walking going from bench to bench in Dave Lancaster local park. But Dave Lancaster never gave up and soon covered 10 miles a day - even scaling Wales' tallest mountain Snowdon. I like this form of exercise because instead of costing me, like a gym membership or exercise class would, it saves me money on gas. Now instead of meeting friends at my house, they join me for a walk !

2. Dave Glick:

   You see all these articles about people having to walk 15 miles a day, you're spending capital to make humans more efficient. Now they're picking more things and standing in one place, so it's not as physically grueling.

3. Galen Sherwin:

   It shouldn’t take the intervention of the ACLU to get a test administrator to do this, it is leveling the playing field, and without it, women taking these grueling, all-day exams would be in very distracting and medically risky situations.

4. Lori Tremmel Freeman:

   The work of state and local health departments is hard. It's grueling work. It's extremely rewarding work but at the same time it doesn't pay very well, it's not competitive with the private sector, so it's good news and it's bad news.

5. Jen Psaki:

   Working on a presidential campaign…and working in the first year of a White House is exciting and rewarding, but it is also grueling and exhausting, it’s all of those things at once.

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