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Meanings of
laborious
in inglês
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
hard
heavy
punishing
arduous
gruelling
grueling
toilsome
backbreaking
operose
Related terms
effortful
Sinônimos
Examples for "
hard
"
hard
heavy
punishing
arduous
gruelling
Examples for "
hard
"
1
First year was fine, he says, but second year was very
hard
.
2
But there's also a lot of
hard
work involved, often physical work.
3
It has been a year of
hard
work, focus, and great success.
4
Result: Stylish and yet
hard
to use and packed with proprietary technology.
5
Crew members don't just work
hard
-they often work every day.
1
China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on
heavy
government subsidies.
2
Reporting remains subject to
heavy
legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
3
Twenty years of freedom have seen
heavy
investment is Soweto's public transport.
4
And Western Australia has particularly
heavy
penalties under its Public Health Act.
5
There is also new evidence that
heavy
precipitation has increased in Europe.
1
Mr Vailea said teachers
punishing
students physically is clearly against the law.
2
The market seems to be
punishing
companies in that position, he added.
3
It was
punishing
;
he had never before done such hard physical work.
4
The main end of the
punishing
affair was to feed their writing.
5
We could also start
punishing
all murderers with public torture and beheading.
1
She helped people with the
arduous
paperwork involved in collecting government aid.
2
Revitalizing the New Orleans streetcar system has been a slow,
arduous
process.
3
It is
arduous
and often painful, but helps provide for their families.
4
These
arduous
examinations, particularly the Leaving, are also a uniquely Irish experience.
5
It had been a long,
arduous
journey through New Crobuzon's vaulted conduits.
1
The following year he had a
gruelling
training period in nine movies.
2
Few Irish athletes remain more committed, particularly in such a
gruelling
event.
3
A set of knives and the beginning of a
gruelling
training regime.
4
Yet again we have seen
gruelling
evidence thirty-two teams are too many.
5
Their ascent has been far longer and more
gruelling
than Veronica expected.
1
It was 13 weeks of
grueling
work chest-deep in water and cold.
2
Photo: supplied In the south island another
grueling
event is also underway.
3
A
grueling
multi-hour training session may call for 90 grams per hour.
4
A month of hard travel-aftera month of
grueling
training and heartache.
5
Ferreting him out was going to be a long,
grueling
,
time-consuming process.
1
She had before her a
toilsome
journey in the companionship of men.
2
And now commenced their
toilsome
journey down the side of the cataract.
3
Contrast with this
toilsome
slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
4
Two years or more passed away in quiet,
toilsome
days for Mildred.
5
It was the same old smoky,
toilsome
place, a perceptible bit lower.
1
New York then added two
backbreaking
goals late in the second period.
2
The going was harder now; it was
backbreaking
work pulling the line.
3
He'd take a bit of marching over that
backbreaking
work any time.
4
It was a
backbreaking
job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
5
Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's
backbreaking
work was hurting his golf.
1
Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and
operose
,
while others sound rather vacuous.
2
But what an
operose
method!
Usage of
laborious
in inglês
1
The work was
laborious
and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
2
Time went on; things happened; but Ryecroft was still
laborious
and poor.
3
Similarly, advances in science and medicine have been achieved through
laborious
research.
4
In one minute the respiration was
laborious
,
and the pupils were dilated.
5
Health and posterity are the portion of the poor- Imeanthe
laborious
.
6
Current assessment technologies are time-consuming and
laborious
and involve bacterial culturing methods.
7
My progress is often slow and can be
laborious
,
but I'm independent.
8
The modern Leaving Certificate is time-consuming, stressful and often
laborious
for teenagers.
9
Search for causing mutations is very
laborious
,
time consuming and low effective.
10
Her life had much in it of
laborious
tedium-tediumnever-ending and monotonous.
11
In the past, the methods of quantitative assessment were
laborious
and arcane.
12
The process of constructing standard curves is
laborious
and consumes additional reagents.
13
The course lay up the ascent, and still continued hazardous and
laborious
.
14
He was
laborious
,
clearheaded, and profoundly versed in the details of finance.
15
Midway in that
laborious
ascent, the monk called to him to stop.
16
For most of the past century, sourcing these was a
laborious
affair.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
laborious
Adjective
Frequent collocations
laborious work
laborious process
most laborious
very laborious
laborious task
More collocations
Laborious
through the time
Laborious
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common