Results for laborious

Definitions of laborious:

part of speech: adjective

Requiring toil; as, a laborious task; hard- working; as, a laborious mechanic.

part of speech: noun

Laboriousness.

part of speech: adjective

Full of labor: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labor: industrious.

part of speech: adjective

Requiring fatiguing exertion; toilsome; difficult.

part of speech: adverb

Laboriously.

Usage examples for laborious:

• She should not undertake everything that is to be done about the house, for no matter how small the household there are certain duties too laborious for her to attempt; these will be easily recognized and turned over to someone else. "The Prospective Mother A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy", J. Morris Slemons

• There was no path there, and the way among the rugged stones and bushes was laborious but he crept and leaped and climbed away till he was within a hundred yards of the sea, where the river began to change its rough, turbulent course to one that was calm and gliding. "King of the Castle", George Manville Fenn

• As soon as any of the symptoms begin to appear, the proper way is to avoid all violent or laborious exercise, and to indulge in such only as is gentle and easy. "The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,", Mary Eaton

• The mechanical part of letter- writing was rather laborious to David; but Margaret wrote well, in consequence of the number of papers, of one sort and another, which she had written for Hugh. "David Elginbrod", George MacDonald