laborious
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la·bo·ri·ous
(lə-bôr′ē-əs)adj.
1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project.
2. Hard-working; industrious.
[Middle English, from Old French laborieux, from Latin labōriōsus, from labor, labor.]
la·bo′ri·ous·ly adv.
la·bo′ri·ous·ness n.
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laborious
(ləˈbɔːrɪəs)adj
1. involving great exertion or long effort
2. given to working hard
3. (of literary style, etc) not fluent
laˈboriously adv
laˈboriousness n
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la•bo•ri•ous
(ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr-)adj.
1. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
2. characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort; labored.
3. industrious.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin labōriōsus]
la•bo′ri•ous•ly, adv.
la•bo′ri•ous•ness, n.
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Adj. | 1. | laborious - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" effortful - requiring great physical effort |
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laborious
adjective
1. hard, difficult, tiring, exhausting, wearing, tough, fatiguing, uphill, strenuous, arduous, tiresome, onerous, burdensome, herculean, wearisome, backbreaking, toilsome Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.
hard easy, effortless, light, easy-peasy (slang)
hard easy, effortless, light, easy-peasy (slang)
2. industrious, hard-working, diligent, tireless, persevering, painstaking, indefatigable, assiduous, unflagging, sedulous He was gentle and kindly, living a laborious life in his Paris flat.
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laborious
adjective1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:
arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty.
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Translations
شاق، مُتْعِب، مُرْهِق
pracný
slidsom
erfiîur
prácny
laborious
[ləˈbɔːrɪəs] ADJ [task, work, process] → laborioso; [written style] → farragoso, poco claroCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
laborious
[ləˈbɔːriəs] adj [task, job] → laborieux/euseCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
laborious
adj task, undertaking → mühsam, mühselig; style → schwerfällig, umständlich
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
laborious
[ləˈbɔːrɪəs] adj → faticoso/a, laborioso/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
labour
(American) labor (ˈleibə) noun1. hard work. The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.
2. workmen on a job. The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.
3. (in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth. She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.
4. used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.
verb1. to be employed to do hard and unskilled work. He spends the summer labouring on a building site.
2. to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty. They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.
laborious (ləˈboːriəs) adjective difficult; requiring hard work. Moving house is always a laborious process.
laˈboriously adverblaˈboriousness noun
ˈlabourer noun
a workman who is employed to do heavy work requiring little skill. the labourers on a building site.
ˈlabour court noun a court of law for settling disputes between management and workers.
ˈlabour dispute noun a disagreement between management and workers about working conditions, pay etc.
ˈlabour-saving adjective intended to lessen work. washing-machines and other labour-saving devices.
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laborious
a. laborioso-a, trabajoso-a.
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