Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: herculean
IPA transcription: [hɚkj'uliən]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: herculean, powerful
    Meaning: displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions"
  • Synonyms: herculean
    Meaning: extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"
Usage examples
  • And with a herculean energy he forced the monk backwards out of the reeling car on to the upper part of the stone ball.
  • In every country it is a herculean task to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in improvement, the difficulties are increased almost to impracticability.
  • The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.
  • To acquire languages, departed or living in spite of such obstinacies as he now knew them inherently to possess, was a herculean performance which gradually led him on to a greater interest in it than in the presupposed patent process.