3 definitions found for backbreaking

backbreaking adj 1: 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]

backbreaking adjective Date: 1851 extremely arduous, exhausting, or demoralizing ; oppressive <backbreaking labor> <backbreaking rents> • backbreaker noun

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "backbreaking": Herculean, annoying, arduous, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, effortful, forced, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained, strenuous, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, wearisome