sisyphean

Speech parts

1. sisyphean - Adjective

2. sisyphean - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vain futile fruitless pointless unproductive sisyphus titanic broken impossible massive demanding formidable endless absurd tedious
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Antonyms

successful effective useful efficient valuable creative
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Phrases with the word

Sisyphean labor Sisyphean punishment

Examples

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster towards a finishing line that is merely the start of the next race. Matt Ridley

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. David Mitchell (author)

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. Jodi Picoult

In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages. Matt Ridley

… Doing so is exhausting, Sisyphean, psychic labor that drains the soul. Source: Internet

Sisyphean as the task may be, if any poem could single-handedly slow a war glacier, this one is it. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Sisymbrium barbarea Sisymbrium officinale Sisymbrium tanacetifolia Sisyphean labor Sisyphean labour Sisyphian