Definition of sisyphean Sisyphean
Sis•y•phe•an
We found 6 definitions of sisyphean from 4 different sources.
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What does sisyphean mean?
WordNet
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| sisyphean - both extremely effortful and futile | ||
| effortful requiring great physical effort | ||
| sisyphean - of or relating to Sisyphus | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sisyphean (a.)
Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sisyphean
sis-i-fē′an, adj. relating to Sisyphus: incessantly recurring. [From Sisyphus, a king of Corinth, who was condemned in Tartarus to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled down again, making his task incessant.]
