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View usage for: (pʌnɪʃɪŋ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]A punishing schedule, activity, or experience requires a lot of physical effort and makes you very tired or weak. It was a punishing schedule for any man, but Fox was now fifty-seven. Besides diets, he devised punishing exercise routines. Synonyms: hard, taxing, demanding, grinding More Synonyms of punishing Examples of 'punishing' in a sentencepunishing A psychiatrist would say she is punishing me through her boyfriends for marrying Sophie.The rudeness of the silence crushed Luther; Hugh might have made a few mistakes, but punishing him in this way was wrong.To punish her more, in the same way she's delighted for so long in punishing me. In other languagespunishing British English: punishing ADJECTIVE A punishing schedule, activity, or experience requires a lot of physical effort and makes you very tired or weak. ...his punishing work schedule. - American English: punishing
- Brazilian Portuguese: desgastante
- Chinese: 繁重费力的
- European Spanish: agotador
- French: épuisant
- German: hart
- Italian: sfiancante
- Japanese: 過酷な
- Korean: 매우 힘든
- European Portuguese: desgastante
- Latin American Spanish: agotador
his punishing work schedule Synonyms grinding burdensome backbreaking Opposites light , easy , simple , effortless , undemanding , cushy (informal) , untaxing , unexacting Additional synonymsDefinition difficult to accomplish The task was more arduous than he had calculated. Synonyms difficult, trying, hard, tough, tiring, severe, painful, exhausting, punishing, harsh, taxing, heavy, steep, formidable, fatiguing, rigorous, troublesome, gruelling, strenuous, onerous, laborious, burdensome, backbreaking, toilsome (literary) Definition requiring a lot of skill, time, or effort It is a demanding job. Synonyms difficult, trying, hard, taxing, wearing, challenging, tough, exhausting, exacting, exigentShe had set herself an exhausting schedule. Synonyms tiring, hard, testing, taxing, difficult, draining, punishing, crippling, fatiguing, wearying, gruelling, sapping, debilitating, strenuous, arduous, laborious, enervating, backbreaking - pungent
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Related terms ofpunishing Additional synonymsDefinition extremely severe or tiring The flight was more gruelling than I had expected. Synonyms exhausting, demanding, difficult, tiring, trying, hard, taxing, grinding, severe, crushing, fierce, punishing, harsh, stiff, brutal, fatiguing, strenuous, arduous, laborious, backbreaking Definition requiring or involving the use of great energy or effort Avoid strenuous exercise in the evening. Synonyms demanding, hard, tough, exhausting, taxing, uphill, arduous, laborious, Herculean, tough going, toilsome (literary), unrelaxing You won't be asked to do anything too taxing. Synonyms demanding, trying, wearing, heavy, tough, tiring, punishing, exacting, stressful, sapping, onerous, burdensome, wearisome, enervatingIt had been a long and tiring day. Synonyms exhausting, demanding, wearing, tough, exacting, fatiguing, wearying, strenuous, arduous, laborious, enervative Definition requiring a great deal of effort It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she wanted. Synonyms arduous, hard, taxing, difficult, tough, exhausting, punishing, gruelling, strenuous, laborious, wearisome, Sisyphean Definition causing exhaustion and sometimes irritation She finds his continual demands very wearing. Synonyms tiresome, trying, taxing, tiring, exhausting, fatiguing, oppressive, exasperating, irksome, wearisome |