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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
requiring considerable effort or perseverance.
Hanging wallpaper is a laborious task.- synonyms:
- arduous, toilsome
- antonyms:
- easy, effortless
- similar words:
- burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, grueling, hard, stiff, strenuous, tiring, troublesome
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| definition 2: |
requiring extreme patience and care.
He wrote up the report in laborious detail.- synonyms:
- painstaking
- antonyms:
- easy, effortless
- similar words:
- careful
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| definition 3: |
diligent and hard-working.
Mozart was a laborious composer whose output was vast.- synonyms:
- sedulous
- antonyms:
- lackadaisical, lazy
- similar words:
- diligent, hard, indefatigable, industrious, painstaking, persevering, pertinacious, steady, zealous
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| related words: |
elaborate, herculean, manual, onerous, rough, tough, trying |
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| derivations: |
laboriously (adv.), laboriousness (n.) |
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