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Arduously

Definition: Arduously

Arduously

Adverb

1. In an arduous manner; "they worked arduously".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "arduously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)


Usage Frequency: Arduously

"Arduously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arduously" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Arduously

Language Translations for "arduously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

mühsam (arduous, burdensome, grindingly, laborious, onerous, toilsomely, troublesome, troublesomely, uphill), anstrengend (arduous, demanding, exhausting, hard, shattering, straining, strenuous, taxing, tiring, trying). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sok munkával, sok fáradsággal (to plough through a work), fáradságosan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

faticoso (arduous, difficult, grindingly, grueling, gruelling, hard, killing, labored, laborious, laboured, stiff, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, uphill, wearisome). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arduouslyay

   

Russian 

  

с трудом (by a narrow margin, heavily). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trabajoso (arduous, grindingly, hard, tiring, toilsome). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

важко (awkwardly, grievously, hard, weightily), напружено (strainedly, tensely, tightly), енергійно (actively, aggressively, busily, thriftily, toughly). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khó khăn (arduous, difficult, hard, kittle, thick, thorny, uneasy), gian khổ (arduous, hard, rugged), gay go (rough, severse, sore, trying). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Arduously"

Words rhyming with "arduously" (pronounced 'Ar"du*ous*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Arduously

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-l-o-r-s-u-u-y"

-2 letters: arduous, sudoral.

-3 letters: aurous, dorsal, douras, dourly, royals, sourly, sudary.

-4 letters: aloud, aryls, dorsa, doura, drays, duals, dural, duras, duros, lards, lardy, lauds, loads, lords, lours, loury, lousy, luaus, lyard, odyls, orals, roads, royal, sadly, sarod, saury, sloyd, solar, sudor, sural, surly, usual, usury, yards, yauds, yauld, yours.

-5 letters: ados, also, aryl, auld, dals.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-l-o-r-s-u-u-y"
 

+3 letters: adulterously.

 

+4 letters: adventurously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Arduously


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 72 64 75 6F 75 73 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-.    -..    ..-    ---    ..-    ...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01100100 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#100 &#117 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0064 0075 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358470878187857891

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Arduously"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionnémet, tedesco, немецкий, alemán, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításUngar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеRusse, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, испанский, español, іспанський, іспанська мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ukrán, ucraino, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, вьетнамский, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, angol, inglese, английский, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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