exhaustingadjective
uk/ɪɡˈzɔː.stɪŋ/us/ɪɡˈzɑː.stɪŋ/B2 making you feel extremely tired:
I've had an exhausting day.
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- Speaking as a mother of four, I can tell you that children are exhausting.
- It's exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day.
- After an exhausting shift at the hospital, she just wanted to get home to bed.
- We finally arrived at the holiday cottage after an exhausting nine-hour drive.
- The new director is a very lively character - his constant energy can be quite exhausting at times.
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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