laborious

English

Alternative forms

• labourious
• laborous
• labourous

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French laborios, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin laboriosus

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs

Adjective

laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)

1. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

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

2. Mentally difficult; painstaking.
3. Industrious.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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

• Bulgarian: труден (bg) (truden), напрегнат (bg) (napregnat)
• 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)
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• 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

• Bulgarian: мъчен (bg) (mǎčen)
• Russian: кропотли́вый (ru) (kropotlívyj)
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industrious — see industrious

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