laborious
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs
Adjective
laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)
- Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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- Mentally difficult; painstaking.
- Industrious.
- Dryden
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
- Dryden
Synonyms
- (requiring effort): painstaking, toilsome, worksome
Derived terms
Translations
requiring much physical effort
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mentally difficult
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industrious — see industrious
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