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laborious
[luh-bawr-ee-uhs]
adjective
requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance.
a laborious undertaking.
Synonyms: , , , , , , ,characterized by or requiring extreme care and much attention to detail.
laborious research.
characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort, dullness, and lack of spontaneity; labored: labor.
a strained, laborious plot.
given to or diligent in work.
a careful, laborious craftsman.
Synonyms: , , , ,
laborious
/ əˈɔːɪə /
adjective
involving great exertion or long effort
given to working hard
(of literary style, etc) not fluent
Other 51Թ Forms
- laboriously adverb
- laboriousness noun
- quasi-laborious adjective
- superlaborious adjective
- superlaboriousness noun
- unlaborious adjective
- unlaboriousness noun
- ˈǰdzܲ adverb
- ˈǰdzܲԱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of laborious1
Example Sentences
Several former federal prosecutors said the firing of an assistant U.S. attorney would normally be a laborious process that involves the employee’s supervisor and higher-ups at their district office.
Some of Trump’s most prominent current and former attorneys doubt that the president has a path to a third term, absent a laborious, politically challenging and time-consuming constitutional amendment.
Making the traditional dough-like dish fufu, for example, is laborious and involves pounding cooked yams or cassava into a paste with a mortar.
After all, bottom-up attempts by the Bush and Obama administrations to negotiate with Pyongyang proved to be both laborious and unsuccessful.
After Kawther collected the documents she needed, Unicef carried out its own welfare checks and went through a laborious process to arrange to move the Masri children.
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