Sisyphean labor

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)

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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 fiːən 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

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