Sisyphean (adj)
siss-i-fee-an
Denoting a task that can never be completed.
Late 16th century: from Latin Sisypheius (based on Greek Sisuphos: see Sisyphus)+ -an.
Example sentences
“It was a sisyphean task but she stuck at it.”
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