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US
/ɫəˈbɔɹiəs/
]
[ UK /lɐbˈɔːɹɪəs/ ]
[ UK /lɐbˈɔːɹɪəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
worked their arduous way up the mining valley
heavy going
hard labor
heavy work
set a punishing pace
a grueling campaign
spent many laborious hours on the project
How To Use laborious In A Sentence
- And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis .... Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
- Items with few words can probably be decoded, albeit laboriously, with adequate comprehension by even the majority of poor readers.
- His plan was to use internet tracking technology to streamline this laborious process and provide more useful and timely information for other PR agencies. Times, Sunday Times
- The scientist watches as eagles dive into the river, emerging laboriously moments later with silver salmon firmly in their talons.
- Even the seemingly laborious housework became enjoyable when there was no time pressure.
- The hard-pressed Minstead team, bolstered by full-time officers from the Yard's murder squad, was in danger of becoming bogged down in the laborious task of weeding out suspects on the fringe of the investigation.
- For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.
- Until recently, their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error.
- Today's techniques for DNA sequencing are comparatively laborious and indirect.
- Leopardi spoke of le sudate carte, his laborious pages: a theory of composition. Lowell and the Furies