Laborious - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ləˈbɔːrɪəs|
Brit.
|ləˈbɔːrɪəs|
adjective
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort (syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome)
spent many laborious hours on the project
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...the volunteers have been commendably laborious in their cleanup of the beach...
Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.
A beetle began to crawl laboriously up his leg.
This is a laborious task that takes time and costs money.
The laborious dot-and-go-one walk occasioned by his lameness.
The most laborious services were assigned to the female.
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