laborious

la·bo·ri·ous

L0003900 (lə-bôr′ē-əs)adj.1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project.2. Hard-working; industrious.

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[Middle English, from Old French laborieux, from Latin labōriōsus, from labor, labor.]

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la·bo′ri·ous·ly adv.la·bo′ri·ous·ness n.

laborious

(ləˈbɔːrɪəs) adj1. involving great exertion or long effort2. given to working hard3. (of literary style, etc) not fluent laˈboriously adv laˈboriousness n

la•bo•ri•ous

(ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr-)

adj. 1. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking. 2. characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort; labored. 3. industrious. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latin labōriōsus] la•bo′ri•ous•ly, adv. la•bo′ri•ous•ness, n.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

laborious - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, operose, toilsome, punishing, hard, heavyeffortful - requiring great physical effort

laborious

adjective1. hard, difficult, tiring, exhausting, wearing, tough, fatiguing, uphill, strenuous, arduous, tiresome, onerous, burdensome, herculean, wearisome, backbreaking, toilsome Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.
hard easy, effortless, light, easy-peasy (slang)2. industrious, hard-working, diligent, tireless, persevering, painstaking, indefatigable, assiduous, unflagging, sedulous He was gentle and kindly, living a laborious life in his Paris flat.3. (of literary style, etc.) forced, laboured, strained, ponderous, not fluent a laborious prose style
forced simple, natural

laborious

adjective1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty.2. Not easy to do, achieve, or master:arduous, difficult, hard, serious, tall, tough, uphill.

Translations

费力的

labour

(American) labor (ˈleibə) noun1. hard work. The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid. 勞動 劳动2. workmen on a job. The firm is having difficulty hiring labour. 工人 工人3. (in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth. She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born. 分娩 分娩4. used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom. 英國工黨 英国工党 verb1. to be employed to do hard and unskilled work. He spends the summer labouring on a building site. 作粗活 劳动2. to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty. They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills. 費力地前進或工作 费力地前进laborious (ləˈboːriəs) adjective difficult; requiring hard work. Moving house is always a laborious process. 費力的 费力的laˈboriously adverb 費力地 费力地laˈboriousness noun 費力 费力ˈlabourer noun a workman who is employed to do heavy work requiring little skill. the labourers on a building site. 勞工 劳动者，劳工 ˈlabour court noun a court of law for settling disputes between management and workers. 勞資爭議法庭 劳资争议法庭ˈlabour dispute noun a disagreement between management and workers about working conditions, pay etc. 勞資糾紛 劳资纠纷ˈlabour-saving adjective intended to lessen work. washing-machines and other labour-saving devices. 節省勞力的 节省劳力的