exhausting
Sapping all energy
Exhausting describes something that drains energy or resources completely.
An exhausting day leaves you spent.
Exhausting work taxes physical or mental reserves: The exhausting climb took six hours.
The word can apply to processes that are thorough rather than tiring: an exhausting search, an exhausting analysis—one that leaves nothing unexamined.
Causing fatigue
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- fatiguingCausing weariness or exhaustion
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- backbreakingExtremely physically demanding
strenuous · arduous · demanding · punishing · taxing · debilitating · enervating · sapping
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- grindCrush into particles
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- slogLaborious persistent effort
- labor-intensiveRequiring extensive human effort
work-intensive · effortful · painstaking · tedious · monotonous · repetitive · thankless · never-ending
Depleting one's reserves
- taxingRequiring great effort
- mind-numbingExtremely tedious or monotonous
- soul-crushingDestroying one's inner spirit
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
Depleting one's reserves
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- taxingRequiring great effort
- heavyOf great mass
- intenseExtreme in degree
fraught · heart-wrenching · gut-wrenching · trying · testing · harrowing · traumatic · distressing
Weariness from prolonged exertion
- wearinessState of being drained
- tirednessState of needing rest
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- lethargyAbnormal drowsiness and apathy
depletion · prostration · collapse · sluggishness · drowsiness · languor · listlessness · torpor
tiring
Causing fatigue
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- fatiguingCausing weariness or exhaustion
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
backbreaking · strenuous · arduous · demanding · punishing · taxing · debilitating · enervating · sapping · wearing
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
labor-intensive · work-intensive · effortful · painstaking · tedious · monotonous · repetitive · thankless · never-ending · unrelenting
draining
Depleting one's reserves
- taxingRequiring great effort
- mind-numbingExtremely tedious or monotonous
- soul-crushingDestroying one's inner spirit
draining
Depleting one's reserves
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- taxingRequiring great effort
- heavyOf great mass
intense · fraught · heart-wrenching · gut-wrenching · trying · testing · harrowing · traumatic · distressing · heartrending
fatigue
Weariness from prolonged exertion
lethargy · depletion · prostration · collapse · sluggishness · drowsiness · languor · listlessness · torpor · enervation
- challengeschallenge, difficult, hard, challenging, tough
- overwhelmingoverwhelming, overpowering, crushing, engulfing, smothering
- overwhelming verbsflooding, drowning, crushing, smothering, swamping
- adjectivesbig, urgent, amazing, temporary, bold
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- exhaustingdraining, taxing, tiring, fatiguing, wearying
exhaustinginvigorating
Imparting fresh energy
energizing · refreshing · revitalizing · rejuvenating · bracing
exhaustingeffortless
Requiring no strain
easy · undemanding · simple · light · manageable
- heat exhaustionCondition from excessive warmth
- emotional exhaustionDepleted capacity for feeling
- worked to exhaustion
- nervous exhaustionFatigue from sustained stress
- persistent exhaustionOngoing state of depletion
exhaustion, exhaustive, inexhaustible, exhaustible, exhaustingly, exhaustiveness, nonexhaustive