Laborious Definition

lə-bôrē-əs
adjective
Involving or calling for much hard work; difficult.
Webster's New World
Industrious; hardworking.
Webster's New World

Labored.

Webster's New World

Mentally difficult; painstaking.

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Origin of Laborious

  • Middle English from Old French laborieux from Latin labōriōsus from labor labor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Laborious Sentence Examples

  • Away from his father he maintained his laborious habits.

  • But he was not a laborious student.

  • Yet he did not relax his laborious habits nor his ardent outlook on human affairs.

  • One laborious task indeed he had bound himself to perform.

  • His principal work is a laborious Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leuwarden, 1713).

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