What is another word for rigors?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɪɡəz] (IPA)

Rigors is a word that is commonly used to describe demanding or challenging situations, tasks or activities that require a great deal of effort, or hardship and difficulty. Synonyms for the word rigors include tough, stringent, unforgiving, exacting, grueling, strenuous, arduous, demanding, exacting, challenging, and trying. Other synonyms for the word rigors include rigorousness, rigidity, severity, sternness, and inflexibility. Each of these synonyms captures the essence of what it means to encounter a situation, task, or activity that is demanding and requires a significant amount of effort, patience, and determination to accomplish successfully.

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Usage examples for Rigors

This journey to land's end would also afford a test of every article of equipment needed in the field work, and would enable us to choose finally from a selected number of Eskimos those most able to endure the rigors of the unlimited journey which lay before us.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Nor were passengers exempt from the rigors of search and plunder.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Eight months, therefore, is the term of the mackerel fishing, and the men engaged in it escape the bitterest rigors of the winter fisheries on the Newfoundland Banks, where the cod is taken from January to January.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot

Famous quotes with Rigors

  • The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
    Shirley Hufstedler
  • The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
    Shirley Mount Hufstedler
  • Evan after I had replaced my civil-libertarian posture with the rigors of Marxism-Leninism, Chinese style, Clark’s [Foreman] advice about the necessity of maintaining individual freedoms stuck in my mind and often forced me into open conflict with Progressive Labor. In many ways it was the need for independence, which Clark helped to instill in me, that led to my eventual break with Communism.
    Phillip Abbott Luce
  • The rigors of membership in the Progress Labor Party and its Stalinist tendencies only create a mental brick wall for the members of the sect. The Progress Labor Party and its vacuum-minded Communists should not be marked for government control merely because they are Communists. The illegal actions of PL do,…
    Phillip Abbott Luce
  • Waley is a special case. He is a fine poet who has deliberately limited himself, as a kind of rigorous aesthetic discipline—a little like the self-imposed rigors of Paul Valéry—to translation from the Chinese and Japanese.
    Arthur Waley

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