drudgery

American  

[druhj-uh-ree] / ˈdrʌdʒ ə ri /

noun

plural

drudgeries

1. menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.

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drudgery British  

/ ˈdrʌdʒərɪ /

noun

1. hard, menial, and monotonous work

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Usage

What are other ways to say drudgery?

Drudgery refers to menial, distasteful, or hard work. How is drudgery different from work, labor, or toil? Find out on Thesaurus.com.

Etymology

Origin of drudgery

First recorded in 1540–50; drudge + -ery

Example Sentences

It's a reminder of the human drudgery underpinning how AI systems operating in the physical world learn.

From BBC

AI relieves humans not of creativity but of drudgery—the rote, time-consuming tasks that have always consumed more human energy than inspiration ever did.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he soon came to realize that Saban-style drudgery could be counterproductive.

From The Wall Street Journal

But for Liu, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California, AI’s ability to perform this drudgery is beside the point.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it wakes us up to the need for those solutions, and it turns our private drudgery into communal solidarity and gives us back the only commodity that ever really mattered: our time.

From The Wall Street Journal