laborious
requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
characterized by or requiring extreme care and much attention to detail: laborious research.
characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort, dullness, and lack of spontaneity; labored: a strained, laborious plot.
given to or diligent in work: a careful, laborious craftsman.
Origin of laborious
1Other words for laborious
Other words from laborious
- la·bo·ri·ous·ly, adverb
- la·bo·ri·ous·ness, noun
- qua·si-la·bo·ri·ous, adjective
- su·per·la·bo·ri·ous, adjective
- su·per·la·bo·ri·ous·ness, noun
- un·la·bo·ri·ous, adjective
- un·la·bo·ri·ous·ness, noun
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How to use laborious in a sentence
The picture of President Adams's daily life is striking in its simplicity and its laboriousness.
John Quincy Adams | John. T. MorseSuch effects as she brought about came without noise, without effort, and without laboriousness of good intention.
The Inner Shrine | Basil KingHis laboriousness and assiduity: his readiness to hear any man that had ought to say, tending to any common good.
No Cross, No Crown | William PennThey had not climbed so far above the river as they had imagined from the laboriousness of the ascent.
The Bungalow Boys Along the Yukon | Dexter J. ForresterGas will be made on a larger scale, with less dirt and nuisance, and without that laboriousness now made necessary.
British Dictionary definitions for laborious
/ (ləˈbɔːrɪəs) /
involving great exertion or long effort
given to working hard
(of literary style, etc) not fluent
Derived forms of laborious
- laboriously, adverb
- laboriousness, noun
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