- Sisyphean labor
- difficult and futile task, endless work (from a Greek myth in which king Sisyphus was doomed to eternally push a boulder up a hill for offending Zeus)
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
Sisyphean labor
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Sisyphean — /sis euh fee euhn/, adj. 1. of or pertaining to Sisyphus. 2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task. [1625 35; < Gk Sisýphe(ios) (Sísyph(os) SISYPHUS + eios adj. suffix) + AN] * * * … Universalium
Sisyphean — Sis·y·phe·an || ‚sɪsɪ fiËÉ™n adj. pertaining to Sisyphus (Greek Mythology); requiring endless hard labor … English contemporary dictionary
Difficulty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Difficulty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 difficulty difficulty Sgm: N 1 hardness hardness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impracticability impracticability &c.(impossibility) 471 Sgm: N 1 tough work tough work hard work uphil … English dictionary for students
difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; … English dictionary for students
failure — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Sisyphean labor, Tom show, Waterloo, also ran, antimasque, arrear, arrearage, arrears, atrocity, audience success, bad habit, bafflement, balk, ballet, bankrupt, bankruptcy, baseness,… … Moby Thesaurus
loose ends — Synonyms and related words: Sisyphean labor, bad job, botch, bungling, endless task, failure, haphazardness, inexecution, messiness, neglect, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance,… … Moby Thesaurus
neglect — Synonyms and related words: Sisyphean labor, abandon, bad policy, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, blink at, brush off, carelessness, cold shoulder, contemn, cut, cut dead, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, discount … Moby Thesaurus
noncompletion — Synonyms and related words: Sisyphean labor, endless task, failure, inexecution, loose ends, neglect, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonperformance, omission, rough… … Moby Thesaurus
nonfeasance — Synonyms and related words: Sisyphean labor, atrocity, bad policy, breach, crime, crime against humanity, culpa, culpable negligence, deadly sin, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, disregard, endless task, enormity, error, evil,… … Moby Thesaurus
nonfulfillment — Synonyms and related words: Sisyphean labor, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, disregard, endless task, failure, falling short, inadequacy, inadequateness, inattention, incompetence, inexecution, inobservance, insufficiency,… … Moby Thesaurus
