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laborious

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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.

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

la·bori·ous·ly adv.
la·bori·ous·ness n.

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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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"
effortful - requiring great physical effort

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, undertakingmühsam, mühselig; styleschwerfällig, umständlich
laborious [ləˈbɔːrɪəs] adjfaticoso/a, laborioso/a
laborious [ləˈbɔːrɪəs] adjfaticoso/a, laborioso/a


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They were coeval with the coureurs des bois, or rangers of the woods, already noticed, and, like them, in the intervals of their long, arduous, and laborious expeditions, were prone to pass their time in idleness and revelry about the trading posts or settlements; squandering their hard earnings in heedless conviviality, and rivaling their neighbors, the Indians, in indolent indulgence and an imprudent disregard of the morrow.
Could one have one's choice, the husbandmen should by all means be slaves, not of the same nation, or men of any spirit; for thus they would be laborious in their business, and safe from attempting any novelties: next to these barbarian servants are to be preferred, similar in natural disposition to these we have already mentioned.
You need no laborious steps to enter upon familiarity with them, and you can earn not only their confidence, but their gratitude, by turning an attentive ear to their discourse.
 
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