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Definition: Arduously |
ArduouslyAdverb1. 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) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 с трудом (by a narrow margin, heavily). (various references) trabajoso (arduous, grindingly, hard, tiring, toilsome). (various references) важко (awkwardly, grievously, hard, weightily), напружено (strainedly, tensely, tightly), енергійно (actively, aggressively, busily, thriftily, toughly). (various references) khó khăn (arduous, difficult, hard, kittle, thick, thorny, uneasy), gian khổ (arduous, hard, rugged), gay go (rough, severse, sore, trying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 64 75 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. -.. ..- --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01100100 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r d u o u s l y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358470878187857891 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | német, 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, fordítás | Ungar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, испанский, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisch, 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 thích | vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, вьетнамский, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol, inglese, английский, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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