trying

Definition

Difficult to endure; arduous.

Etymology

From try + -ing.

Example Sentences

• ""Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?""
• "Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld."
• "Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah"