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- pronunciation:
- l
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
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 |
adverb + (adj.)laborious
less, rather
(adj.)laborious
+ noun
chore, construction, detail, effort, fashion, journey, method, minute, movement, negotiation, preparation, procedure, process, reading, step, task, technique, translation, work
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| derivations: |
laboriously (adv.), laboriousness (n.) |
The word laborious
contains the following parts:
labor, laborat, lab
Latin
root
that means to work
  Example words:
- synonyms:
- oper
-ous, -ious
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of, characterized by
More about this word part:
The suffix "-ous
, -ious
" attaches to Latin, Greek, and native English roots
Example words:
adventurous, ambiguous, amorous, amorphous, anadromous, androgynous, anomalous, apetalous, apocarpous, apterous, aqueous, atrocious, auspicious, avaricious, azygous, captious, carnivorous, chromous, coterminous, covetous, curious, delicious, diadromous, diaphanous, dicephalous, dioecious, disingenuous, egregious, endogenous, enormous, epigynous, euphonious, extemporaneous, ferocious, fortuitous, generous, glorious, gracious, gregarious, heterogamous, heterogeneous, homogeneous, homogenous, homologous, homopterous, hydrous, hypogynous, illustrious, impecunious, impervious, incommodious, incongruous, inconspicuous, indecorous, infamous, infelicitous, innocuous, intravenous, isogenous, isomerous, joyous, judicious, laborious, ludicrous, lustrous, magnanimous, malicious, malodorous, monoclinous, monoecious, multiparous, nauseous, perigynous, poisonous, porous, precious, quadrumanous, ramous, rebellious, spacious, subaqueous, synchronous, tubuliflorous, unanimous, valorous, vicious, wondrous, xerophilous
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