| Huvudsakliga översättningar |
| Engelska | Svenska |
| wearing adj | (tiring) (fysiskt eller psykiskt) | tröttande, tröttsam adj |
| (fysiskt) | slitsam adj |
| Repeating the same monotonous task all day was wearing. |
| arduous adj | (tiring, challenging) | krävande, ansträngande adj |
| mödosam, slitsam adj |
| påfrestande adj |
| Our journey up the steep mountain path under the beating sun was arduous. |
| laborious adj | (involving hard work) | arbetsam adj |
| slitsam, mödosam adj |
| ansträngande adj |
| This project has been a laborious undertaking. |
| taxing adj | figurative (difficult, demanding) | påfrestande adj |
| ansträngande adj |
| krävande adj |
| slitsam adj |
| Harry finds hiking in cold weather to be taxing on his body. |
backbreaking,
back-breaking adj | figurative (work: strenuous, arduous) | slitsam adj |
| mödosam adj |
| (vardagligt) | tuff adj |
| Frank did back-breaking work on the farm for over 50 years. |
| toilsome adj | (involving hard work) | slitsam adj |
| arbetssam adj |
| (vardagligt) | jobbig adj |
| wearisome adj | (tedious) (vardagligt) | jobbig adj |
| mödosam adj |
| slitsam adj |
| tröttsam adj |
| I'm so tired of this professor's wearisome lectures. |
heavy going,
heavy-going adj | (laborious, dull) | mödosam adj |
| tråkig adj |
| slitsam adj |
| killing adj | figurative (exhausting) | påfrestande adj |
| (mycket arbetsam) | slitsam, mödosam adj |
| This killing heat makes it impossible to work. |
