Backbreaking and Smooth

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Backbreaking adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.

Usage example: modern machinery has significantly eased the backbreaking work of farming

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Smooth is an antonym for backbreaking.

Smooth adjective - Having or showing very polished and worldly manners.

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Backbreaking is an antonym for smooth.

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Smooth and Backbreaking. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/backbreaking/smooth

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