| Definitions | Herculean
adjective
- very strong, similar to the mythical Hercules in size
- 1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random
- :He replied in a dry manner, that I would find it a task to chastise everybody who should laugh at my expense;
- 2006: Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear, commenting on the Bugatti Veyron
- : The guys at Volkswagen has a Herculean task.
Translations: - French: herculéen , herculéenne (2)
Etymology: see Hercules
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adjective
- see Herculean
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- :Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.
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