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[ US /ɫəˈbɔɹiəs/ ]
[ UK /lɐbˈɔːɹɪəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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