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US
/ɫəˈbɔɹiəs/
]
[ UK /lɐbˈɔːɹɪəs/ ]
[ UK /lɐbˈɔːɹɪəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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
- 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
- It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing.