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uphill battle synonyms

Trying to find another word for uphill battle in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of uphill battle in 47 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for uphill battle alphabetically.

  • backbreaking
  • burdensome
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • formidable
  • grueling
  • harsh
  • heavy
  • labored
  • laborious
  • murder
  • no picnic
  • onerous
  • painful
  • arduous
  • exhausting
  • grueling
  • hard
  • laborious
  • punishing
  • taxing
  • toilsome
  • wearisome
  • aggravating
  • annoying
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • exasperating
  • incommodious
  • inconvenient
  • irritating
  • rebarbative
  • remote
  • tiresome
  • troublesome
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • carking
  • crushing
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disturbing
  • exacting
  • exigent
  • heavy
  • irksome
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • superincumbent
  • taxing
  • tough
  • Daedalean
  • Gordian
  • abstruse
  • arduous
  • byzantine
  • can of worms
  • convoluted
  • difficult
  • elaborate
  • entangled
  • fancy
  • gasser
  • hard
  • hi-tech
  • ambitious
  • backbreaker
  • bothersome
  • clamorous
  • critical
  • dictatorial
  • difficult
  • exacting
  • exhausting
  • exigent
  • fussy
  • grievous
  • hard
  • imperious
  • ambitious
  • arduous
  • backbreaker
  • bothersome
  • burdensome
  • challenging
  • crucial
  • demanding
  • easier said than done
  • effortful
  • exacting
  • formidable
  • galling
  • gargantuan
  • afflictive
  • deplorable
  • distressful
  • dreadful
  • fearful
  • frightening
  • grievous
  • nagging
  • painful
  • poignant
  • regrettable
  • sad
  • troublesome
  • woeful
  • arduous
  • backbreaking
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • hard
  • heavy
  • labored
  • laborious
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • rigorous
  • rough
  • severe
  • strained
  • burdensome
  • by the book
  • careful
  • critical
  • difficult
  • exigent
  • finicky
  • fussy
  • grievous
  • hard
  • harsh
  • hypercritical
  • imperious
  • nit-picking
  • debilitating
  • depleting
  • draining
  • exhausting
  • sapping
  • taxing
  • tiresome
  • wearing
  • wearying
  • appalling
  • awful
  • dangerous
  • daunting
  • dire
  • dismaying
  • dreadful
  • fearful
  • fierce
  • frightful
  • horrific
  • imposing
  • impregnable
  • intimidating
  • bone-crushing
  • crumbling
  • crunching
  • crushing
  • disintegrating
  • eroding
  • granulating
  • grating
  • milling
  • powdering
  • pulverizing
  • rubbing
  • scraping
  • shivering
  • bearded
  • bewhiskered
  • bristly
  • bushy
  • downy
  • fleecy
  • flocculent
  • fluffy
  • furry
  • fuzzy
  • hirsute
  • lanate
  • pileous
  • piliferous
  • abundant
  • ample
  • awkward
  • beefy
  • big
  • built
  • bulky
  • burdensome
  • chunky
  • considerable
  • copious
  • corpulent
  • cumbersome
  • cumbrous
  • almighty
  • backbreaking
  • colossal
  • courageous
  • forceful
  • gargantuan
  • gigantic
  • hard
  • heroic
  • huge
  • impressive
  • laborious
  • mighty
  • strenuous
  • abstruse
  • baroque
  • byzantine
  • can of worms
  • complex
  • convoluted
  • daedal
  • difficult
  • entangled
  • fancy
  • hard
  • high-tech
  • involved
  • labyrinthine
  • Gordian
  • byzantine
  • complex
  • confusing
  • convoluted
  • difficult
  • elaborate
  • high-tech
  • intricate
  • knotty
  • labyrinthine
  • mazy
  • muddled
  • ramified
  • aggravating
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • burdensome
  • irritating
  • tedious
  • tiresome
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • vexing
  • Gordian
  • baffling
  • complex
  • complicated
  • difficult
  • effortful
  • elaborate
  • formidable
  • hard
  • intricate
  • involved
  • labyrinthine
  • mazy
  • mystifying
  • affected
  • arduous
  • awkward
  • clumsy
  • contrived
  • effortful
  • forced
  • hard
  • heavy
  • inept
  • maladroit
  • operose
  • overdone
  • overwrought
  • arduous
  • backbreaking
  • burdensome
  • effortful
  • fatiguing
  • forced
  • heavy
  • herculean
  • labored
  • onerous
  • operose
  • ponderous
  • rough go
  • stiff
  • close
  • greedy
  • mercenary
  • mingy
  • miserly
  • niggard
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • rapacious
  • scrimpy
  • selfish
  • stingy
  • tight
  • barbarous
  • callous
  • compassionless
  • cruel
  • cutthroat
  • dog-eat-dog
  • fierce
  • gratuitous
  • grim
  • hard
  • hardhearted
  • harsh
  • hatchet job
  • having a killer instinct
  • annihilation
  • assassination
  • blood
  • bloodshed
  • butchery
  • carnage
  • crime
  • death
  • destruction
  • dispatching
  • felony
  • foul play
  • hit
  • homicide
  • arduous
  • austere
  • backbreaking
  • burdensome
  • crushing
  • cumbersome
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • distressing
  • embittering
  • exacting
  • excessive
  • exhausting
  • exigent
  • arduous
  • diligent
  • hard
  • industrious
  • laborious
  • accurate
  • ascetic
  • austere
  • bitter
  • brutal
  • burdensome
  • correct
  • definite
  • dogmatic
  • exacting
  • hard
  • harsh
  • inclement
  • inflexible
  • asperous
  • bearded
  • brambly
  • bristly
  • broken
  • bumpy
  • bushy
  • chapped
  • choppy
  • coarse
  • cragged
  • craggy
  • cross-grained
  • disheveled
  • asperous
  • broken
  • coarse
  • craggy
  • difficult
  • furrowed
  • harsh
  • hilly
  • irregular
  • jagged
  • leathery
  • lumpy
  • mountainous
  • ragged
  • blotchy
  • coarse
  • encrusted
  • lepidote
  • notched
  • scabby
  • scaly
  • unsmooth
  • austere
  • bound
  • bound and determined
  • businesslike
  • cold sober
  • contemplative
  • deadpan
  • deliberate
  • determined
  • downbeat
  • earnest
  • funereal
  • genuine
  • go for broke
  • astringent
  • austere
  • biting
  • caustic
  • close
  • cold
  • cruel
  • cutting
  • disapproving
  • dour
  • earnest
  • firm
  • flinty
  • forbidding
  • cringing
  • docile
  • fawning
  • obsequious
  • servile
  • submissive
  • agglutinative
  • clinging
  • gluey
  • glutinous
  • ropy
  • syrupy
  • tacky
  • tenacious
  • viscid
  • viscous
  • arduous
  • demanding
  • effortful
  • energy-consuming
  • exhausting
  • hard
  • herculean
  • laborious
  • mean
  • operose
  • taxing
  • toilful
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • abhorrent
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awe-inspiring
  • awesome
  • awful
  • beastly
  • dangerous
  • desperate
  • dire
  • disastrous
  • disturbing
  • dread
  • dreaded
  • demanding
  • exacting
  • taxing
  • arduous
  • backbreaking
  • bothersome
  • burdensome
  • complicated
  • demanding
  • difficile
  • distressing
  • effortful
  • exacting
  • fatiguing
  • formidable
  • grinding
  • hairy
  • arduous
  • backbreaking
  • burdensome
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • exhausting
  • hard
  • labored
  • onerous
  • operose
  • rough
  • strenuous
  • taxing
  • tiresome
  • brawny
  • cohesive
  • conditioned
  • dense
  • durable
  • fibrous
  • firm
  • fit
  • flinty
  • hard
  • hard as nails
  • hard-bitten
  • hardened
  • hardy
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • burdensome
  • damaging
  • dangerous
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disquieting
  • harassing
  • hard
  • heavy
  • importunate
  • inconvenient
  • abundant
  • bountiful
  • extravagant
  • free
  • giving
  • hard
  • inexorable
  • liberal
  • munificent
  • openhanded
  • procrustean
  • profuse
  • relentless
  • ruthless
  • acclivous
  • ascending
  • climbing
  • mounting
  • rising
  • skyward
  • sloping upward
  • toward summit
  • up
  • uprising
  • draining
  • exhausting
  • boring
  • dull
  • laborious
  • strenuous
  • tedious
  • tiresome
  • toilsome
  • debilitating
  • draining
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • overburdening
  • wearing

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