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Definitions for laborious
ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr-la·bo·ri·ous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. laboriousadjective

    Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

  2. laboriousadjective

    Mentally difficult; painstaking

  3. laboriousadjective

    Industrious.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. LABORIOUSadjective

    Etymology: laborieux, French; laboriosus, Latin.

    That which makes the clergy glorious, is to be knowing in their professions, unspotted in their lives, active and laborious in their charges, bold and resolute in opposing seducers, and daring to look vice in the face; and lastly, to be gentle, courteous, and compassionate to all. Robert South, Serm.

    To his laborious youth consum’d in war,
    And lasting age, adorn’d and crown’d with peace. Matthew Prior.

    A spacious cave within its farmost part,
    Was hew’d and fashion’d by laborious art,
    Through the hill’s hollow sides. John Dryden, Æn. 6.

    Do’st thou love watchings, abstinence, and toil,
    Laborious virtues all? learn them from Cato. Joseph Addison, Cato.

ChatGPT

  1. laborious

    Laborious refers to a task, process, or activity that requires significant effort, time, and hard work. It often implies something tedious, exhausting, or physically demanding.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Laboriousadjective

    requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome

  2. Laboriousadjective

    devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic

  3. Etymology: [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor: cf. F. laborieux.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of laborious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of laborious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of laborious in a Sentence

  1. Victor Cousin:

    All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

  2. Virgil:

    The descent to hell is easy, the black gates stand open night and day, but to climb back up again to retrace ones steps to the upper air there in lies the laborious task, the toil.

  3. Carl Jung:

    In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!

  4. Euclid Tsakalotos:

    After weeks of laborious negotiations, if there is a real will from the other side, it will be clear that the discussion has reached a level where an agreement is very close and will be reached in the coming period.

  5. Henry Louis Mencken:

    Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

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