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1. (adj.) laborious
requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance:
a laborious undertaking.
2. laborious
characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort; labored.
3. laborious
industrious.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L labōriōsus)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
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"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) laborious
requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome
2. (adj) laborious
devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic
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Sense: difficult; requiring hard work
Moving house is always a laborious process.
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 Afrikaans: inspannende |
 Arabic: شاق، مُتْعِب، مُرْهِق |
 Bulgarian: тежък |
 Brazilian: trabalhoso |
 Czech: pracný |
 German: mühsam |
 Danish: anstrengende; slidsom |
 Greek: κουραστικός, κοπιώδης |
 Spanish: laborioso |
 Estonian: vaevaline |
 Farsi: پر زحمت |
 Finnish: työläs |
 French: laborieux |
 Hebrew: קָשֶה |
 Hindi: कठिन, श्रमसाध्य, परिश्रमी |
 Croatian: naporan, težak |
 Hungarian: nehéz |
 Indonesian: sulit |
 Icelandic: erfiður |
 Italian: faticoso |
 Japanese: 骨の折れる |
 Korean: 힘든, 어려운 |
 Lithuanian: sunkus, vargingas |
 Latvian: grūts; darbietilpīgs |
 Malay: menjerihkan |
 Dutch: moeizaam |
 Norwegian: anstrengende, slitsom |
 Polish: żmudny |
 Persian: پر زحمت |
 Pashto: ستونزمن |
 Portuguese: trabalhoso |
 Romanian: trudnic, laborios |
 Russian: трудный; трудоёмкий |
 Slovak: prácny |
 Slovenian: garaški |
 Serbian: naporan |
 Swedish: mödosam, tung |
 Thai: ยาก |
 Turkish: zor, zahmetli |
 Taiwanese: 費力的 |
 Ukrainian: важкий; трудомісткий |
 Urdu: دشوار، محنت کا متقاضی |
 Vietnamese: vất vả |
 Chinese: 费力的 |
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