Herculean

herculean
    adj 1: displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean
           exertions" [syn: {herculean}, {powerful}]
    2: extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a
       herculean task"
    

Herculean \Her*cu"le*an\, a. [L. herculeus, fr. Hercules: cf. F.
   hercul['e]en. See {Hercules}.]
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   1. Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great,
      difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.
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   2. Having extraordinary strength or size; as, Herculean
      limbs. "Herculean Samson." --Milton.
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91 Moby Thesaurus words for "Herculean":
      Antaean, Atlantean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean,
      Gargantuan, Homeric, abstruse, abysmal, arduous, astronomic,
      backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, colossal, complex, critical,
      crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, effortful,
      elephantine, enormous, epic, exacting, forced, formidable,
      gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, grueling, hairy, hard,
      hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, immense,
      infinite, intricate, jawbreaking, jumbo, killing, knotted, knotty,
      labored, laborious, mammoth, mean, mighty, monster, monstrous,
      monumental, mountainous, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose,
      oppressive, painful, prodigious, profound, punishing, rigorous,
      rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strained,
      strenuous, stupendous, thorny, ticklish, titanic, toilsome, tough,
      towering, tremendous, tricky, troublesome, uphill, vast, wearisome,
      wicked