Antonyms for laborious

Grammar : Adj

Spell : luh-bawr-ee-uhs, -bohr-

Phonetic Transcription : ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr-

Definition of laborious

Origin : late 14c., "hard-working, industrious," from Old French laborios "arduous, wearisome; hard-working" (12c., Modern French laborieux), from Latin laboriosus "toilsome, wearisome, troublesome," from labor (see labor (n.)). Meaning "costing much labor, burdensome" is from early 15c.; meaning "resulting from hard work" is mid-15c. Related: Laboriousness.

adj hard, difficult
adj hardworking

Example sentences :

It is his magnum opus in literature, and exhibits wide and laborious research.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

For his perilous and laborious work it was better, he judged, that he should not be married.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

Under these laborious shades a whole world of light revealed itself.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

Life here is laborious, but downright want I should say rare.
Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

O the days that he had seen her careful and laborious for him!
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

So far she had only been set to do landscape, and laborious drawings of casts from the antique.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

Picking is the most laborious, as it is the most picturesque operation on the plantation.
Extract from : « The Fabric of Civilization » by Anonymous

The descent was as laborious as the ascent had been, and much more dangerous.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

And what shall be our first hypothesis, if I am to attempt this laborious pastime?
Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato

But as I must attempt this laborious game, what shall be the subject?
Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato

Synonyms for laborious

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