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Augean adjective
Au·ge·an | \ ȯ-ˈjē-ən \
Definition of Augean
: extremely formidable or difficult and occasionally distasteful
an Augean task
Synonyms
arduous, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
Antonyms
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
Examples of Augean in a Sentence
dreaded the Augean task of cleaning the bathroom after an overflow of the toilet
First Known Use of Augean
1676, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for Augean
Latin Augeas, king of Elis, from Greek Augeias; from the legend that his stable, left neglected for 30 years, was finally cleaned by Hercules