Definitions for Herculean

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Herculean her·cu·le·an

Spelling: [hur-kyuh-lee-uh n, hur-kyoo-lee- Herculean is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 361 anagrams from letters in Herculean (aceehlnru).

Definitions for Herculean

adjective

1. requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform:
2. having enormous strength, courage, or size.
3. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Hercules or his labors.

Origin of Herculean

1590-1600; Latin Hercule(us) of, belonging to Hercules + -an

Examples for Herculean

For women with ADHD conforming to these problematic standards is a herculean task.

Now even the scaled-down agreement is proving a herculean task.

Next moment I was struggling in the herculean grasp of the Irishman.

Tangling with the ancients in this way takes a certain herculean arrogance.

He was a man of herculean frame, dressed in the most gorgeous of barbaric attire.

Those versions of the story present a herculean drama of man versus nature.

Now, even that was revealed to be in concord with his herculean bulk.

The old and young, rich and poor, feeble and herculean, all played it.

It goes back to the Greeks and the idea of sport as some sort of herculean sacrifice without personal enrichment.

The President asked his countrymen to undertake a herculean task.