laborious
laborious Lexical Profile
laborious Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Requiring considerable time, effort, and perseverance; wearisome and taxing to perform.
"Restoring the ancient manuscript was a slow, laborious process that took the conservation team nearly three years."
Showing obvious signs of effort and lacking natural fluency or spontaneity (especially of speech, writing, or artistic style).
"His early essays were marred by a laborious prose style that made even simple arguments feel heavy and unnatural."
Accustomed to or diligent in hard work (of a person); industrious.
"The historian described the early settlers as a frugal and laborious people who cleared the dense forests by hand."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French laborieux and directly from Latin laboriosus ('toilsome, wearisome'), from labor ('toil, exertion, hardship').