laboriously

English

Alternative forms

• labouriously
• laborously (obsolete)
• labourously (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

laborious +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɔː.ɹi.əs.lɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ləˈbɔɹ.i.əs.li/

Adverb

laboriously (not comparable)

1. With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.

   The heavy man laboriously climbed the steep mountain, pulling himself up inch by inch.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

   • 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 339:

     For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.

Synonyms

• (with great effort): painstakingly

Related terms

• labor
• laborious

Translations

with great expenditure of effort

• Catalan: laboriosament (ca)
• Czech: pracně
• Finnish: hankalasti (fi)
• French: laborieusement (fr)
• Hungarian: fáradságosan, nehézkesen (hu), vesződségesen
• Latin: labōriōsē
• Spanish: laboriosamente