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laborious

[ luh-bawr-ee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance:

    a laborious undertaking.

    Synonyms: wearisome, tiresome, hard, difficult, burdensome, onerous, arduous, toilsome

  2. characterized by or requiring extreme care and much attention to detail:

    laborious research.

  3. characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort, dullness, and lack of spontaneity; labored: labor:

    a strained, laborious plot.

  4. given to or diligent in work:

    a careful, laborious craftsman.

    Synonyms: painstaking, sedulous, assiduous, industrious, hardworking



laborious

/ ləˈbɔːrɪəs /

adjective

  1. involving great exertion or long effort
  2. given to working hard
  3. (of literary style, etc) not fluent
“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
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Derived Forms

  • laˈboriously, adverb
  • laˈboriousness, noun
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Other Words From

  • 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of laborious1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word labōriōsus. See labor, -ious
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Example Sentences

A photo-based approach is also much less laborious for pregnant people, making it easy to collect data over a period of weeks instead of just a few days.

Vaccinations could improve the winged creatures’ chances of surviving the onset of white-nose syndrome, according to Smith, but injecting individual bats is laborious.

I also love the laborious detail you provide about the car you drive in case your set is fact-checked.

Why go out and splurge on an external hard drive for a laborious backup process when you can simply have the whole thing happen in real time?

From Slate

Out a second-straight game while he nursed left leg soreness, Rojas watched the play from the dugout, reflecting on Ohtani’s laborious season as he watched the ball sail over the fence.

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