Usually means: Requiring significant effort or energy.
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  1. strenuous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strenuous: Merriam-Webster
  3. strenuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strenuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strenuous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strenuous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strenuous, strenuous: Wordnik
  8. strenuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. strenuous: Wiktionary
  10. strenuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strenuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strenuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strenuous: Dictionary.com
  14. strenuous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. strenuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Strenuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strenuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strenuous: Rhymezone
  19. strenuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strenuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. strenuous: FreeDictionary.org
  22. strenuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. strenuous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. strenuous: Legal dictionary

(Note: See strenuosity as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
▸ adjective:  (of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious.

Similar:
effortful, arduous, straining, energetic, strong-handed, vigorous, robust, high-powered, superstrenuous, vehement, more...

Opposite:
easy, simple, effortless, undemanding

Types:
aerobic, anaerobic, easy, light, moderate, vigorous, more...

Phrases:
The Strenuous Life, strenuous effort, less strenuous, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon,     firebrick, more...


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Similar:
effortful, arduous, straining, energetic, strong-handed, vigorous, robust, high-powered, superstrenuous, vehement, more...

Opposite:
easy, simple, effortless, undemanding

Types:
aerobic, anaerobic, easy, light, moderate, vigorous, more...

Phrases:
The Strenuous Life, strenuous effort, less strenuous, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon,     firebrick, more...



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