UPHILL Synonyms

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• requiring precise accuracy

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• having a sharp inclination

• a steep place (as on a hill)

• greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

• of a slope; set at a high angle

• devote (oneself) fully to

• let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• sloping upward

• advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• sloping upward

• coming to maturity

• newly come into prominence