laborious

English

Alternative forms

labourious
laborous
labourous

Etymology

From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs

Adjective

laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)

Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
Mentally difficult; painstaking.
Industrious.
- Dryden
  All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.

Synonyms

(requiring effort): painstaking, toilsome, worksome

Derived terms

laboriously

Translations

requiring much physical effort

Catalan: laboriós
Czech: pracný m
Dutch: bewerkelijk (nl), arbeidsintensief (nl), laborieus
French: laborieux (fr) m
German: arbeitsintensiv
Greek:
Ancient: ἐπίπονος (epíponos)
Irish: saothrach
Italian: laborioso (it)

Latin: labōriōsus
Old English: earfoþe
Polish: pracochłonny (pl), mozolny (pl)
Portuguese: laborioso (pt) m
Romanian: laborios (ro)
Russian: трудоёмкий (ru) (trudojómkij), тру́дный (ru) (trúdnyj), тяжёлый (ru) (tjažólyj), напряжённый (ru) (naprjažónnyj), утоми́тельный (ru) (utomítelʹnyj)
Spanish: laborioso (es)
Swedish: mödosam (sv), tung (sv)

mentally difficult

Russian: кропотли́вый (ru) (kropotlívyj)

industrious — see industrious

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Norman: ^{(please verify)} pénibl'ye m or f (Jersey)