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Webster 1913 Edition
Laborious
La-bo′ri-ous
,Adj.
[L.
laboriosus
, fr. labor
labor: cf. F. laborieux
.] 1.
Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
Laborious
virtues all? Learn these from Cato. Addison.
2.
Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious;
– as, a
. laborious
mechanicLa-bo′ri-ous-ly
, adv.
La-bo′ri-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Laborious
LABO'RIOUS
,Adj.
1.
Using exertion; employing labor; diligent in work or service; assiduous; used of persons; as a laborious husbandman or mechanic; a laborious minister or pastor.2.
Requiring labor; toilsome; tiresome; not easy; as laborious duties or services.3.
Requiring labor, exertion, perseverance or sacrifices.Dost thou love watchings, abstinence or toil, laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
Definition 2024
laborious
laborious
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)
- Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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- Mentally difficult; painstaking.
- Industrious.
- Dryden
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
- Dryden
Synonyms
- (requiring effort): painstaking, toilsome, worksome
Derived terms
Translations
requiring much physical effort
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mentally difficult
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industrious — see industrious