Herculean
Meaning of Herculean
adjective
- requiring great strength or effort.
a Herculean task
late 16th century (in the sense ‘relating to Hercules’): from Latin Herculeus ‘Hercules’ + -an.
Information about Herculean
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of Herculean
Her-culean
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- Herculean is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Herculean synonyms
Meaning powerful:
Meaning involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring:
Meaning extremely tiring and demanding:
Meaning requiring considerable time and effort:
Meaning (of a task or responsibility) involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty:
Meaning requiring or using great effort or exertion:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable:
Meaning difficult to carry out or fulfil; taxing:
Meaning requiring a great deal of endurance or effort:
Meaning difficult and requiring determination or effort:
Meaning extremely large; enormous:
Meaning of great weight; difficult to lift or move:
Meaning large and heavy or solid:
Meaning requiring great effort; difficult:
Meaning denoting or relating to a task that can never be completed:
Meaning (of a task) requiring much skill or effort:
Meaning making one feel very tired; very tiring:
Meaning physically or mentally demanding:
Meaning making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources:
Meaning causing tiredness; tiring:
Meaning causing one to feel tired or bored:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel exhausted:
Meaning causing death:
Meaning tire (someone) out:
Meaning involving hard or tedious work:
Herculean antonyms
Meaning achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties:
Translation of Herculean
- German: herculanisch
- Spanish: herculano
- French: herculéen
Words that rhyme with Herculean
Lean, lean, Daedalean, Tantalean, calean, cannibalean, cordaitalean, euryalean, Damoclean, Empedoclean, Heraclean, MacLean, Maclean, McLean, Periclean, Sophoclean, aseptoclean, bactraclean, bioclean, clean, heraclean, houseclean, hyperclean, overclean, periclean, preclean, reclean, sophoclean, superclean, thericlean, ultraclean, unclean, Aristotelean, Elean, Mephistophelean, Pasitelean, Praxitelean, aristotelean, mephistophelean, pelean, spelean, glean, upglean, Abbevilean, Cailean, Chilean, Galilean, Zoilean, chilean, crocodilean
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