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laborious

4 syllables
adjective
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As an adjective, laborious means requiring much physical effort.

Meanings of laborious

4 meanings

adjective

  1. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

  2. Mentally difficult; painstaking.

  3. Industrious.

  4. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

    “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”

    “a grueling campaign”

    “hard labor”

    Similar: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy

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adjective: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; espec…
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Words that rhyme with laborious

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