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