0 needing great strength and determination: --
1 having or needing great strength or effort: --
She had the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.
At the present time the engineers and munition workers, in particular, are making herculean efforts to obtain the maximum production in war industries.
They have made the domestic rate yield so large that the task of abolishing rates is even more herculean.
The scale is great and increasing in greatness, and the refugee problem demands herculean efforts to tackle it adequately.
It proved a very complex and herculean task.
I have a herculean task in trying to paint a picture of these tremendous industries in half an hour.
I wish him well in his herculean task.
We have in front of us a herculean task.
They have mounted herculean efforts to provide the necessary support.
