Labored

Synonyms for "labored" (126 found)

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Closest matches (26)

awkward affected alliterating alliterative arabesque arduous artificial assonant backbreaking baroque belabored bombastic burdensome busy chanting chichi chiming cliche-ridden clumsy contrived

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cramped crushing cumbrous difficult dingdong

Adjective(1 words)

bookish

Strong matches (37)

Adjective(3 words)

dreich dull inert

effortful elaborate elegant elephantine excessive fancy farfetched fine flamboyant florid flowery forced formal formidable frilly fussy grueling guinde halting hard

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hard earned hard fought hard-earned hard-fought harping heavy hefty herculean high-wrought humdrum inept inkhorn jingle-jangle

Adjective(1 words)

heavy

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Synonyms

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laboured

derived

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laboredly nonlabored

form of

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labor

related to

3 entries

difficult labor perform

similar

3 entries

awkward effortful

Sample sentences

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The car labored up the hill.

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He labored to complete the work.

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They labored over the budget for the fiscal year 1997.

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They labored in the factories.

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