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   laborious

   /ləˈbɔːrɪəs/

   adjective

   • 1. requiring considerable time and effort: "years of laborious training" Similar arduoushardheavydifficultstrenuousgruellingmurderouspunishingexactingtoughformidableonerousburdensomeback-breakingtryinguphillrelentlessstiffchallengingHerculeantiringfatiguingexhaustingwearyingwearingtaxingenervatingdemandingwearisometediousboringirksomeinformal:knackeringarchaic:toilsomerare:exigentOpposite easysimple
   • ▪ (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency: "she wrote in laborious, dictionary-assisted English" Similar labouredstrainedforcedcontrivedaffectedstudiedstiffstiltedunnaturalartificialoverdoneoverwroughtheavyponderousconvolutednot fluentelaborateover-elaborateintricateornateprolixOpposite effortlessnatural

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘industrious, assiduous’): from Old French laborieux, from Latin laboriosus, from labor ‘labour’.

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   • 1. laboriousness noun

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   What does laborious mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! LABORIOUS definition: 1. needing a lot of time and effort: 2. needing a lot of time and effort: 3. needing a lot of…. Learn more.

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   What is a laborious undertaking?

   • 1. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking. 2. characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort; labored. 3. industrious. la•bo′ri•ous•ness, n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. 1.

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   What is a laborious task?

   • If you describe a task or job as laborious, you mean that it takes a lot of time and effort. Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task. He sat behind a desk laboriously writing with an Army issue pen. ...the embroidery she'd worked on so laboriously during the long winter nights. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   What does laborious research mean?

   • laborious research. a strained, laborious plot. a careful, laborious craftsman. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word labōriōsus.

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   • Znaczenie Laborious, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

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     LABORIOUS translate: 耗時費力的；艱巨的，艱難的. Learn more in the...

   • Laboriously

     LABORIOUSLY definition: 1. in a way that needs a lot of time...

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   • Laborious: Russian Translation

     laborious translate: трудоемкий, утомительный . Learn more...

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   Laborious means requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance, or characterized by excessive effort and lack of spontaneity. See the origin, pronunciation, and usage of the word laborious in sentences from various sources.

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   Laborious describes something that requires a lot of hard work, such as Victor Frankenstein’s laborious undertaking of digging graves to find monster parts.

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   Laborious means involving great exertion or long effort, or hard-working and industrious. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of laborious in English and Spanish, and see related words and examples.