laboriously
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6.6
- adverb
- /ləˈbɔːrɪəsli/
:
laboriosamente
- Prominent on the workbench was Patrick's mail-order microscope he'd laboriously assembled from a kit.
- laboriously negotiated
- slowly and laboriously
- laboriously by hand
Once Upon a time, people invested in their memories in laboriously furnishing their minds.
- Once Upon a time, people invested in their memories in laboriously furnishing their minds.
- But anyway, so he would would plunge all these crystals one after the other, which he'd laboriously made.
- I don't want to give a laboriously long answer, but I I was, yeah. I had sort of a dark childhood. It wasn't good,
Examples
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Four species of sea turtles, all endangered, come ashore every year to nest, laboriously pulling themselves onto the beaches.
Academic text (2006) -
Down below, the postpartum-smelling woman laboriously pushed the carriage along the water's edge.
Fiction book (1995) -
You are Ms. Wrigley's mother, correct?" Susan laboriously raised herself to full height, still rather small.
Fiction book (1999) -
Zale got to his knees, then laboriously stood to his feet.
Fiction book (2001) -
Yet my child, at least, rarely noticed or appreciated the art I had so laboriously contrived.
Academic text (1991) -
Before the days of mass printing, composers laboriously made their own copies of the works of the masters.
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A few yards away, a young woman in a wheelchair was laboriously removing herself from the women's room.
Fiction book (1993) -
The artist laboriously painted each detail of the mural, spending hours on every brush stroke.
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She laboriously transcribed the lengthy manuscript, ensuring that every word was accurately recorded.
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The team laboriously moved the heavy equipment across the site, requiring all their strength and persistence.
Synonyms
38
4.1
In a careful and steady way that shows hard work
27
3.5
In a way that shows steady energy and does not slow down
20
6.0
With great care and attention to small details
12
5.5
With great effort and determination
1
7.8
In a way that needs great effort and long hard work
1
3.7
To work very hard and carefully
1
7.7
You do something with great effort that makes you very tired
In a way that uses a lot of physical or mental energy
To do something with careful and steady effort over time
In a way that causes a lot of extra work or trouble
Antonyms
How Laborious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Laboriously comes from the word labor, which means 'work' or 'toil'. So, to do something laboriously is to do it with slow, hard work, like carrying a heavy load step by step.