Definition of laborious

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Laborious (a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome..

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Laborless :: Laborless (a.) Not involving labor; not laborious; easy.
Dig :: Dig (v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
Arduous :: Arduous (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise..
Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..
Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion..
Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life..
Arduously :: Arduously (adv.) In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
Eke :: Eke (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other..
Drug :: Drug (v. i.) To drudge; to toil laboriously.
Bore :: Bore (v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
Laborious :: Laborious (a.) Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic..
Climb :: Climb (v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together..
Research :: Research (n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom..
Gasp :: Gasp (v. i.) To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently..
Hew :: Hew (v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher..
Drudgingly :: Drudgingly (adv.) In a drudging manner; laboriously.
Fagging :: Fagging (n.) Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school..
Encumbrance :: Encumbrance (n.) That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance..
Toilful :: Toilful (a.) Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care..
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