'backbreaking' definitions:
Definition of 'backbreaking'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
Synonyms of 'backbreaking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- annoying,
- arduous,
- besetting,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- crushing,
- effortful,
- forced,
- grueling,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- Herculean,
- irksome,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- plaguey,
- punishing,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- wearisome