laboriousness








adjective

  1. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
  2. characterized by or requiring extreme care and much attention to detail: laborious research.
  3. characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort, dullness, and lack of spontaneity; labored: a strained, laborious plot.
  4. given to or diligent in work: a careful, laborious craftsman.

adjective

  1. involving great exertion or long effort
  2. given to working hard
  3. (of literary style, etc) not fluent

adj.late 14c., “hard-working, industrious,” from Old French laborios “arduous, wearisome; hard-working” (12c., Modern French laborieux), from Latin laboriosus “toilsome, wearisome, troublesome,” from labor (see labor (n.)). Meaning “costing much labor, burdensome” is from early 15c.; meaning “resulting from hard work” is mid-15c. Related: Laboriousness.

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