a laborious job

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• laborious — la|bo|ri|ous [ lə bɔriəs ] adjective 1. ) a laborious job or process is long, difficult, and often boring: We eventually began the laborious task of sorting through his papers. 2. ) a laborious way of doing something is slow or boring and… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• laborious — UK [ləˈbɔːrɪəs] / US [ləˈbɔrɪəs] adjective 1) a laborious job or process is long, difficult, and often boring We eventually began the laborious task of sorting through his papers. 2) a laborious way of doing something is slow or boring and… …   English dictionary

• laborious — adjective 1) a laborious job Syn: arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, grueling, punishing, exacting, tough, onerous, burdensome, back breaking, labor intensive, trying, challenging; tiring, fatiguing …   Thesaurus of popular words

• laborious — adjective 1) a laborious job Syn: arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, gruelling, punishing, exacting, tough, onerous, burdensome, back breaking, trying, challenging 2) Doug s laborious style …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• laborious — [adj1] hard, difficult arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, effortful, fatiguing, forced, heavy, herculean*, labored, onerous, operose, ponderous, rough go*, stiff, strained, strenuous, tiresome, toilsome, tough, tough job*, wearing, wearisome,… …   New thesaurus

• laborious — adjective 1 laborious task/process/method etc a job or piece of work that is difficult and needs a lot of effort: the laborious task of collating all the evidence 2 seeming to be done slowly and with difficulty: laborious progress through the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• laborious — [[t]ləbɔ͟ːriəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe a task or job as laborious, you mean that it takes a lot of time and effort. Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task. Derived words: laboriously ADV GRADED ADV with v He sat… …   English dictionary

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