laborious

la·bo·ri·ous  (l-bôr-s, -br-)

adj.

1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project.

2. Hard-working; industrious.

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[Middle English, from Old French laborieux, from Latin labrisus, from labor, labor.]

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la·bori·ous·ly adv.

la·bori·ous·ness n.

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laborious [ləˈbɔːrɪəs]

adj

1. involving great exertion or long effort

2. given to working hard

3. (of literary style, etc.) not fluent

laboriously  adv

laboriousness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

laborious - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, operose, toilsome, punishing, hard, heavy effortful - requiring great physical effort

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laborious

adjective

1. hard, difficult, tiring, exhausting, wearing, tough, fatiguing, uphill, strenuous, arduous, tiresome, onerous, burdensome, herculean, wearisome, backbreaking, toilsome Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.
hard easy, effortless, light, easy-peasy (slang)

2. industrious, hard-working, diligent, tireless, persevering, painstaking, indefatigable, assiduous, unflagging, sedulous He was gentle and kindly, living a laborious life in his Paris flat.

3. (of literary style, etc.) forced, laboured, strained, ponderous, not fluent a laborious prose style
forced simple, natural

Translations

laborious [ləˈbɔːrɪəs] ADJ [task, work, process] → laborioso; [written style] → farragoso, poco claro

laborious [ləˈbɔːriəs] adj [task, job] → laborieux/euse

laborious

adj task, undertaking → mühsam, mühselig; style → schwerfällig, umständlich

laborious [ləˈbɔːrɪəs] adj → faticoso/a, laborioso/a