496 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ stɹˈɛnjuːəs], [ stɹˈɛnjuːəs], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_j_uː_ə_s]

Similar words for strenuous:

• Herculean (adjective)
• aggressive (adjective)
• ambitious (adjective)
• arduous (adjective)
• busy (adjective)
• combative (adjective)
• difficult (adjective)
• dynamic (adjective)
• effortful (adjective)
• energetic (adjective)
• formidable (adjective)
• grueling (adjective)
• hard (adjective)
• heavy (adjective)
• heightened (adjective)
• indefatigable (adjective)
• labored (adjective)
• lively (adjective)
• lusty (adjective)
• murderous (adjective)
• onerous (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• painstaking (adjective)
• rough-and-tumble (adjective)
• rugged (adjective)
• sanguinary (adjective)
• serious (adjective)
• sticky (adjective)
• strenuous (adjective)
• tireless (adjective)
• tough (adjective)
• trying (adjective)
• unwearied (adjective)
• uphill (adjective)
• vigorous (adjective)
• vital (adjective)
• arduous (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• laborious
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for strenuous

Synonyms for Strenuous:

• adj.

  • Herculean (adjective)
  • gigantic.
  • aggressive (adjective)
  • smart alecky,
  • flip,
  • enterprising,
  • sassy,
  • hard sell,
  • Assertory,
  • get up and go,
  • nervy,
  • brassy,
  • imperious,
  • flipper,
  • shooting from the hip,
  • strenuous,
  • domineering,
  • come on,
  • militant,
  • pushing,
  • go after,
  • masterful,
  • pushy,
  • combative.
  • ambitious (adjective)
  • visionary,
  • lofty,
  • exacting,
  • pretentious,
  • severe,
  • industrious,
  • challenging,
  • elaborate,
  • grandiose,
  • impressive,
  • loftier.
  • arduous (adjective)
  • Fatiguing,
  • rough,
  • harsh,
  • tiring,
  • troublesome,
  • rigorous,
  • backbreaking,
  • burdensome,
  • painful,
  • punishing,
  • murder.
  • busy (adjective)
  • hectic,
  • lively,
  • bustling,
  • Hustling,
  • humming,
  • fussy,
  • restless,
  • popping,
  • full.
  • combative (adjective)
  • contentious,
  • antagonistic,
  • scrappy,
  • belligerent,
  • cussed,
  • pugnacious,
  • warlike,
  • trigger-happy,
  • cantankerous,
  • bellicose,
  • truculent,
  • warring,
  • quarrelsome.
  • difficult (adjective)
  • tight,
  • unyielding,
  • galling,
  • contrary,
  • thorny,
  • Operose,
  • easier said than done,
  • oppressive,
  • rigid,
  • bothersome,
  • immense,
  • wearing,
  • titanic,
  • upstream,
  • Difficile,
  • problematic,
  • irritating,
  • not easy,
  • wearying,
  • prohibitive,
  • complex,
  • stiff,
  • knotty,
  • problem,
  • grinding,
  • adverse,
  • cumbersome,
  • ticklish,
  • hard-won,
  • crucial,
  • demanding,
  • finicky,
  • tricky,
  • backbreaker,
  • complicated,
  • up-stream,
  • gargantuan,
  • intricate.
  • dynamic (adjective)
  • vitalizing,
  • compelling,
  • charismatic,
  • magnetic,
  • effective,
  • powerful,
  • progressive,
  • go-getter,
  • activating,
  • electric,
  • go-ahead,
  • vehement,
  • potent,
  • changing,
  • productive,
  • forcible,
  • influential,
  • driving,
  • energizing,
  • intense,
  • zippy.
  • effortful (adjective)
  • effortful.
  • energetic (adjective)
  • ball of fire,
  • peppy,
  • hardy,
  • animated,
  • snappy,
  • stalwart,
  • spry,
  • high-powered,
  • unflagging,
  • indefatigable,
  • fresh,
  • sturdy,
  • vivacious,
  • sprightly,
  • untiring,
  • breezy,
  • demoniac.
  • formidable (adjective)
  • more all powerful,
  • puissant,
  • allpowerful,
  • more allpowerful,
  • most all-powerful,
  • more dismaying,
  • staggering,
  • most all powerful,
  • most ballbuster,
  • most dismaying,
  • over powering,
  • most allpowerful,
  • mightiest,
  • more ballbuster,
  • over-powering,
  • dis maying,
  • more all-powerful,
  • dis-maying.
  • grueling (adjective)
  • more racking,
  • more chastening,
  • most chastening,
  • more crushing,
  • most racking,
  • most crushing.
  • hard (adjective)
  • harder,
  • unsparing,
  • uphill battle,
  • Toilful.
  • heavy (adjective)
  • pro-found,
  • most acroamatic,
  • Heightened,
  • Acroamatic,
  • in-tolerable,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro founder,
  • in tolerable,
  • more acroamatic,
  • pro found.
  • heightened (adjective)
  • in tensive,
  • te,
  • ter,
  • in-tensive.
  • indefatigable (adjective)
  • stop at nothing,
  • un-faltering,
  • un-flinching,
  • un-wearying,
  • un-remitting,
  • un wearying,
  • in-exhaustible,
  • un wavering,
  • un remitting,
  • more unwearying,
  • hell bent,
  • nose grindstone,
  • bound determined,
  • in exhaustible,
  • stop nothing,
  • un faltering,
  • most unwearying,
  • un flinching,
  • un-wavering,
  • hell-bent.
  • labored (adjective)
  • over done,
  • un-natural.
  • lively (adjective)
  • vital.
  • lusty (adjective)
  • hale.
  • murderous (adjective)
  • Sapping,
  • feller,
  • sanguinary,
  • murderous,
  • slaughterous,
  • sanguineous.
  • onerous (adjective)
  • over taxing,
  • most headache,
  • more headache,
  • more embittering,
  • more plodding,
  • over-taxing,
  • most plodding,
  • more overtaxing,
  • most embittering,
  • most overtaxing.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • difficult,
  • a bit much,
  • vigorous,
  • hyped-up,
  • on the go,
  • grueling,
  • arduous,
  • tiresome,
  • tough,
  • over-wrought,
  • ho hum,
  • hohum,
  • bloodyminded,
  • ho-hum,
  • tough job,
  • tireless,
  • rough go,
  • go-getting,
  • lusty,
  • tough proposition,
  • overtaxing,
  • onerous,
  • energetic,
  • laborious,
  • heavy sledding,
  • boresome,
  • coming on strong,
  • labored,
  • large order,
  • zestful,
  • uphill,
  • nose to grindstone,
  • hyped up,
  • busy as a beaver,
  • head ache,
  • sticky,
  • stressful,
  • uncool,
  • hyper,
  • highpowered,
  • formidable,
  • play hard ball,
  • ructious,
  • grinder,
  • trying,
  • unwearied,
  • hellbent,
  • busy,
  • fire-eating,
  • dead set on,
  • gladiatorial,
  • all-powerful,
  • ballbuster,
  • hard,
  • aggressive,
  • serious,
  • toilsome,
  • heavy,
  • hawkish,
  • Enervative,
  • nowhere,
  • dynamic,
  • tall order,
  • dragger,
  • ambitious,
  • no picnic,
  • painstaking,
  • play for keeps,
  • Weariless,
  • rugged,
  • wearisome,
  • unwearying.
  • painstaking (adjective)
  • fussbudget,
  • conscionable,
  • by the book,
  • by numbers.
  • rough-and-tumble (adjective)
  • rough and tumble,
  • stridulent,
  • squally.
  • rugged (adjective)
  • un compromising,
  • un-compromising.
  • sanguinary (adjective)
  • bloody minded.
  • serious (adjective)
  • out for blood,
  • of consequence,
  • smoking,
  • playing hard ball,
  • unamusing,
  • strictly business,
  • no laughing matter,
  • sobering,
  • unhumorous,
  • no joke.
  • sticky (adjective)
  • dis-comforting,
  • dis comforting,
  • most discomforting,
  • more discomforting.
  • strenuous (adjective)
  • earnest,
  • eager,
  • strong,
  • energy-consuming,
  • spirited.
  • tireless (adjective)
  • more hyper,
  • grindest,
  • re solute,
  • re-solute,
  • on go.
  • tough (adjective)
  • in-tractable,
  • in tractable,
  • no piece of cake,
  • no piece cake.
  • trying (adjective)
  • up-setting,
  • most exasperating,
  • ex asperating,
  • most vexing,
  • ex-asperating,
  • pro vocative,
  • up setting,
  • more exasperating,
  • most aggravating,
  • most stressful,
  • pro-vocative,
  • more aggravating,
  • more stressful,
  • more vexing.
  • unwearied (adjective)
  • un wearied,
  • un failing,
  • un-wearied,
  • un-failing.
  • uphill (adjective)
  • up hill,
  • up-hill.
  • vigorous (adjective)
  • fervent,
  • exuberant,
  • hearty,
  • ablaze,
  • passionate,
  • emphatic,
  • take-charge,
  • take over,
  • burning,
  • afire,
  • mettlesome,
  • take-over,
  • strong as ox,
  • strong as an ox,
  • enthusiastic,
  • prolific,
  • hard-driving,
  • impassioned,
  • virile,
  • frisky,
  • fiery,
  • full-blooded,
  • agitated,
  • excited.
  • vital (adjective)
  • most zestful.

• n.

  •
  • driven,
  • motivated,
  • competitive,
  • sedulous,
  • insistent,
  • determined,
  • purposeful,
  • persistent,
  • dedicated.
  •
  • action,
  • be an effort,
  • taxing.
  • arduous (noun)
  • exhausting,
  • study at active.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • intrepid,
  • active,
  • straining,
  • ardent,
  • zealous,
  • valiant.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dynamical,
  • rough-and-tumble,
  • knockabout.
  •
  • kinetic.
  •
  • brisk,
  • forceful.
  • laborious
  • herculean.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • intensive,
  • relentless,
  • spiny,
  • tough going,
  • incisive,
  • muscular,
  • sleepless,
  • hairy,
  • unbearable,
  • augean,
  • resounding,
  • gruelling,
  • crushing,
  • vibrant,
  • critical,
  • occupied,
  • resolute,
  • running,
  • enervating,
  • knotted,
  • draining,
  • diligent,
  • trenchant,
  • athletic,
  • brutal,
  • keen,
  • terrible,
  • Moiling,
  • sincere,
  • physical,
  • bold,
  • pertinacious,
  • hellacious,
  • hefty,
  • hard-working,
  • red-blooded,
  • crippling,
  • hardworking,
  • pick-and-shovel,
  • robust,
  • on the move,
  • slavish,
  • assertive,
  • living,
  • in earnest,
  • testing,
  • persisting,
  • take charge,
  • abstruse,
  • stouthearted,
  • go-go,
  • torturous,
  • tenacious,
  • wicked,
  • unremitting,
  • forced,
  • harrowing,
  • tall,
  • hellish,
  • strained,
  • violent,
  • sweaty,
  • dashing,
  • in action,
  • hard-fought,
  • killing,
  • spanking,
  • mean,
  • intolerable,
  • forward,
  • delicate,
  • stout,
  • smacking,
  • killer,
  • laboured,
  • back-breaking,
  • dogged,
  • Unintermitting,
  • steep,
  • vivid,
  • Energetical,
  • power,
  • plodding,
  • assiduous,
  • acute,
  • impetuous,
  • intensely,
  • breathless,
  • hard-earned.

Paraphrases for Strenuous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    arduous, hard.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    arduous.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    active, aggressive, bitter, burdensome, ceaseless, challenging, colossal, concerted, constant, demanding, difficult, diligent, distressing, exacting, exhaustive, fierce, formidable, harsh, huge, immense, incessant, insistent, intractable, major, massive, monumental, onerous, rigorous, staggering, steadfast, stern, strained, stressful, strict, stringent, stubborn, sustained, tense, tiring, unstinting, uphill, vibrant.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    incessant, unstinting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    assiduous, considerable, cumbersome, daunting, energetic, enormous, exhausting, extensive, great, herculean, intense, large, painful, painstaking, persistent, relentless, rigid, robust, serious, severe, significant, strong, substantial, tedious, tenacious, tireless, tiresome, tough, unremitting, untiring, vigorous, violent.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    considerable, painstaking, significant, tireless, unremitting, untiring.