Definitions for Sisyphean

Sisyphean Sis·y·phe·an

Spelling: [sis-uh-fee-uh n]
IPA: /ˌsɪs əˈfi ən/

Sisyphean is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 411 anagrams from letters in Sisyphean (aehinpssy).

Definitions for Sisyphean

adjective

  1. of or relating to Sisyphus.
  2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.

Origin of Sisyphean

1625-35; Greek Sīsýphe(ios) (Sī́syph(os) Sisyphus + -eios adj. suffix) + -an

Examples for Sisyphean

It was a Sisyphean task, and poor Emile had spent much sweat and not a little blood in his efforts.

It seemed a Sisyphean task, no sooner ended than a new one was exacted.

Trolling for notes every few months can be a Sisyphean task.

Graduating into the Great Recession only added to the sense of Sisyphean striving.

Perhaps even more problematic is that legal enforcement of the policy itself is a Sisyphean task; there is no way it can be done.

Chrysler nearly escaped its Sisyphean fate, with a hastily arranged “merger of equals” a decade ago, to Daimler-Benz.

I was pleased, therefore, to be freed from the Sisyphean labors of the editorial office.

Is the Sisyphean stone of Home Rule, so laboriously rolled uphill, to again roll down, crushing in its fall the faithful rollers?

Exhausted by her Sisyphean task, distrustful of this new and unfamiliar method, the Osmia resigns herself and expires in her cell.

One evening I found him in his chambers engaged upon his Sisyphean labour of “tidying up.”

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