shatteringadjective
uk/ˈʃæt.ər.ɪŋ/us/ˈʃæt̬.ɚ.ɪŋ/shattering adjective (TIRING)
making you feel extremely tired:
It was a shattering schedule - seven meetings in two days.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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shattering adjective (UPSETTING)
making you feel extremely upset:
Losing the family business was a shattering blow.
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
- twist/turn the knife (in the wound) idiom
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