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
- 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
- active
- arduous
- assiduous
- backbreaking
- burdensome
- diligent
- effortful
- fatiguing
- forced
- heavy
- herculean
- indefatigable
- industrious
- labored
- onerous
- operose
- painstaking
- persevering
- ponderous
- rough go
- sedulous
- stiff
- strained
- strenuous
- tireless
- tiresome
- toilsome
- tough
- tough job
- unflagging
- wearing
- wearisome
- wicked
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