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Laborious

//ləˈbɔːɹiəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

    "Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."

  2. 2
    Mentally difficult; painstaking.
  3. 3
    Industrious.

    "All, with united Force, combine to drive / The lazy Drones from the laborious Hive."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort wordnet

Etymology

From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus. By surface analysis, labor + -ious

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