Laborious

  • 21laborious — adjective Date: 14th century 1. devoted to labor ; industrious 2. involving or characterized by hard or toilsome effort ; labored • laboriously adverb • laboriousness noun …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 22laborious — adjective a) Requiring much physical effort; toilsome. b) Mentally difficult; painstaking …

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  • 23laborious — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, abstruse, ardent, arduous, assiduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, careful, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, detailed, determined, difficile, difficult, diligent, dogged, effortful,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 24laborious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hard, arduous, tiresome, irksome; diligent, assiduous. See exertion.Ant., effortless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Difficult] Syn. arduous, hard, stiff; see difficult 1 . 2. [Industrious] Syn.… …

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  • 25laborious — la·bo·ri·ous || lÉ™ bɔːrɪəs adj. tiresome, exhausting; hard, strenuous; constrained; dull, without spontaneity; industrious, diligent; careful and attentive to detail …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 26laborious — [lə bɔ:rɪəs] adjective requiring considerable time and effort. ↘(of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort. Derivatives laboriously adverb laboriousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. laborieux, from L. laboriosus, from labor labour …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 27laborious — a. 1. Industrious, sedulous, assiduous, toiling, hard working, painstaking. See diligent. 2. Difficult, arduous, onerous, toilsome, tiresome, wearisome, fatiguing, irksome, hard, Herculean …

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  • 28laborious — adj 1. toilsome, toilful, difficult, uphill, tough, hard; heavy, burdensome, hefty, weighty; arduous, strenuous, straining, exertive, vigorous; tiring, tiresome, fatiguing, wearying, wearisome, tedious, weariful, wearing. 2. careful, painstaking …

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  • 29laborious — la·bo·ri·ous …

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  • 30laborious —   Pa ahana, luhi, pa u …

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