exhausting
[adjective]
Synonyms: tiring, backbreaking, debilitating, gruelling, laborious, punishing, sapping, strenuous, taxing

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English Thesaurus: tiring, exhausting, hard, wearing, gruelling, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ex‧haust‧ing /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪŋ $ -ˈzɒːs-/ adjective
making you feel extremely tired:
an exhausting process
It had been an exhausting day.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

exhausting
adj.
VERBS be, prove | become | find sth
ADV. really, very a really exhausting day
quite | a bit, fairly, pretty | emotionally, mentally, physically

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

exhausting
adjective
BAD: An exhausting investigation finally revealed the cause of the accident.
GOOD: An exhaustive investigation finally revealed the cause of the accident.

Usage Note:
exhausting = causing tiredness: 'Pushing the car uphill was exhausting.'
exhaustive = so thorough or complete that not even the smallest detail or possibility is missed: 'Following exhaustive inquiries, the police are at last able to issue a description of the suspects.'

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Common Errors ▲

tiring making you feel that you want to sleep or rest:
The journey was really tiring.
I’ve had such a tiring day.
It was tiring work.
exhausting extremely tiring:
I had to drive nine hours without a break – it was exhausting.
an exhausting week of singing, acting, and dancing
hard very tiring and difficult – used about days, journeys etc:
a hard day at work
The last part of the journey was very hard.
wearing /ˈweərɪŋ $ ˈwer-/ tiring because you have to use a lot of your mental energy, and often become bored – used about people, situations etc:
I find her constant questions rather wearing.
Kids of that age can be very wearing.
His films always tend to have the same plots, which does get rather wearing after a while.
gruelling British English, grueling American English (also punishing) very tiring physically or mentally – used when you have to keep doing something for a long time:
a gruelling journey across the desert
a gruelling race
a punishing schedule
a punishing exercise regime
backbreaking backbreaking work is extremely tiring and needs a lot of physical effort:
Clearing the land was slow backbreaking work.
Laborers were paid $2 a day for backbreaking farm work.
something is a killer informal used when saying that something is extremely tiring:
Today was a real killer.
fatiguing formal making you feel very tired:
Factory work was repetitive and fatiguing.

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