laborious
10
6.8
- adjective
- /ləˈbɔːr.i.əs/
:
laborioso
- The romanticism associated with moonshining obscures how laborious the work was.
- laborious process
- laborious task
- laborious work
So people are getting a view of how laborious jury selection can be.
- So people are getting a view of how laborious jury selection can be.
- But that is designed to be a laborious process.
- It is a laborious frame by frame artist driven technique.
- If our young reader were to stop here, his reading would be very slow and laborious, since he would have to read letter by letter.
- The other aspect is in that mentality, to do deeds great and beneficial, to undertake difficult and laborious tasks even at the risk of life.
- But it was after the the fucking laborious fucking screening process.
- So it's certainly do leave their house and they document every single laborious moment.
- And so we equate productivity with the laborious doing that we can see with our five senses.
- Painful bit of a laborious bit, which is an achievement for us.
- And these are time consuming laborious studies that not often repeated when they're done they're they're done well.
- However laborious you can make it, there is a utter mystery at your back.
Examples
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The women are also responsible for providing food for all during the laborious planting process.
Academic text (2004) -
Jan and Marta entered and began the laborious process of issuing the certificates.
Academic text (2002) -
So people are getting a view of how laborious jury selection can be.
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But that is designed to be a laborious process.
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"But what used to be a very laborious process goes a lot faster."
Academic text (1999) -
It's a beautiful piece of detective work, actually, both of these studies, this was hard, laborious work.
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In theory, the treatment of PTTO is a laborious and time-consuming process.
Academic text (2001) -
Many of their lessons involve PowerPoint presentations or laborious teacher lectures, leaving students to sit quietly and listen.
Academic text (2011) -
Conscious decision-making requires cognitive effort and is a relatively laborious process taxing a highly limited attentional capacity.
Academic text (1998) -
The team faced a laborious task of sorting through countless documents to find the relevant information.
Synonyms
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1.1
Needing a lot of effort and often strict or severe
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1.6
Not easy to do or understand
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2.1
Hard to do or understand
87
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
48
4.2
Needing a lot of time and patience
34
4.9
Needing a lot of effort or energy
30
7.0
Very hard and tiring, needing a lot of physical effort
29
7.7
Very difficult to do and needing a lot of effort over a long time
15
5.3
Needing a lot of work by people rather than machines
1
6.9
Needing a lot of physical or mental work
1
5.8
Very hard physical work that makes your body tired
1
8.9
Needing a lot of hard work and making you tired
Needing a lot of hard work and careful attention
Hard to do and leaves you very tired
Needing a lot of time, effort, or attention
Antonyms
How Laborious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Laborious comes from the Latin root labor, which means 'work' or 'hard work', and you can see the same root in the English word labor; so a laborious task is one that is full of work and takes a lot of time and effort.