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Sisyphean

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Adjective

1. sisyphean

of or relating to Sisyphus

2. sisyphean

both extremely effortful and futile

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sisyphean

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adjective
1. 
relating to Sisyphus
2. 
actually or seemingly endless and futile

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Sisyphean

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adjective
1. 
of or like Sisyphus
2. 
endless and toilsome, useless, etc.
a Sisyphean task

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sisyphean

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adj.
1. Of or relating to Sisyphus.
2. Endlessly laborious or futile: "The jumble of wet pans and platters ... made him weary; to dry them seemed a task as Sisyphean as to repair the things wrong with his parents' house" (Jonathan Franzen).

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