laborious in English

adjective

1

(especially of a task, process, or journey) requiring considerable effort and time.

years of laborious training

synonyms: arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, grueling, punishing, exacting, tough, onerous, burdensome, back-breaking, labor-intensive, trying, challenging, tiring, fatiguing, exhausting, wearying, wearing, taxing, demanding, wearisome, tedious, boring, time-consuming, toilsome

adjective

arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, grueling, punishing, exacting, tough, onerous, burdensome, back-breaking, labor-intensive, trying, challenging, tiring, fatiguing, exhausting, wearying, wearing, taxing, demanding, wearisome, tedious, boring, time-consuming, toilsome
labored, strained, forced, contrived, affected, stiff, stilted, unnatural, artificial, overwrought, heavy, ponderous, convoluted
toilsome, arduous, grueling, operose, punishing, hard, backbreaking, heavy

Use "laborious" in a sentence

1. It's about painstaking research and laborious testing.

2. Analysts warn that it will be a long, laborious process.

3. Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task.

4. Checking all the information will be slow and laborious.

5. Arduous definition, requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an Arduous undertaking

6. Producing appreciable quantities demands somewhat laborious and delicate manipulations of yeast.

7. They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.

8. Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.

9. Then he could sleep through the drive and the laborious business of make-up.

10. Time was when monitoring a suspected dead - letter box involved laborious work by humans.

11. The laborious processing of the gold involves women, the elderly and children.

12. 7 For the smallholder kale is a rather laborious crop to feed.

13. But boiling the grain was a laborious process and produced an unpalatable mush.

14. The texts were transcribed by hand, a laborious process that encouraged typographical shorthand.

15. Synonyms for Arduous include difficult, hard, heavy, taxing, tough, formidable, laborious, onerous, strenuous and trying

16. Antiquaries meanwhile began the laborious task of dating and classifying medieval English architecture

17. 25 But boiling the grain was a laborious process and produced an unpalatable mush.

18. The difficult ascent of the mountain Arduous stresses the need of laborious and persevering exertion

19. " The reality is that investing in Vietnam is still a very laborious process , " Mr. Brown says .

20. After laborious experimentation, they discovered the correct mixtures of volcanic ash and slaked lime.

21. It is a laborious process, likely to lead to embarrassing blunders if badly done.

22. However, the work of translation was laborious, with some projects lasting 20 years or more.

23. 7 Mild, persistent delirium, not as violent as in Belladonna restless with laborious dreams, muttering delirium.

24. Synonyms for Backbreaking include hard, difficult, arduous, demanding, tough, strenuous, laborious, exacting, gruelling and challenging

25. The laborious task of contacting all the men on the list from London Life cranked into life.

26. This is a laborious and painstaking process involving beating, steaming, scraping, soaking, stripping, and other treatments.

27. 27 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.

28. It is recognised, however, that this would be an extremely laborious task and unlikely to be fulfilled.

29. 12 Waxing is a very laborious process and the wood will require re-waxing at regular intervals.

30. Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand, a laborious task.

31. Since everyone enjoyed the results of this laborious task, it seemed only fair that everyone participate in their production.

32. Without the convenience of machinery, what a laborious task it must have been to reduce grain to flour!

33. That afternoon we made a laborious but uneventful descent down the north east face and retrieved our skis.

34. Arduous definition: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort synonyms: heavy, effortful, hard, punishing, operose, laborious

35. Homosexuality can therefore feel more natural to many men than their comparatively laborious, expensive, and frustrating pursuits of young women.

36. Of all the styles it is the most laborious and there are few professionals able or willing to continue the tradition.

37. The Belletristic is sometimes contrasted with the scholarly or academic: it is supposed to be free of the laborious, …

38. Tests for alpha radiation need not be as laborious and time consuming, thanks to new testing procedures being developed.

39. This laborious procedure was abolished in 1689, when a duty was charged on each pound of dry tea leaves.

40. The estates had been neglected in the war and Sharpe had begun the laborious task of repairing the years of neglect.

41. This would have been a laborious task done by using a portable hand mill and possibly a mortar and pestle.

42. But it was equally evident that traditional approaches to the computerisation of personnel records was too complex, laborious and expensive.

43. Producing these on conventional printers is a very laborious process and the results will only be in black and white.

44. Some of the jobs around a farm or homestead were minor everyday tasks and some were huge and laborious undertakings.

45. Near the top of their laborious climb, they discovered that a protruding ledge denied them their final few feet of ascent.

46. Inefficiencies due to human error in conducting these laborious scans for potential applicants was another source for concern regarding the operation.

47. The laborious work and the meager wages made them feel painful, and then they extemporaneously sang some songs to express their own misfortune.

48. Traditional method which manually used tool gage is time-consuming and laborious. So a new method of automatic tool adjustment is proposed.

49. Certification and Accreditation – Target Date October 2001 It is agreed that the Certification and Accreditation process within the Department is laborious and technically inclined.

50. Sentence example with the word 'Abstruse' Abstruse abstract, complex, demanding, hairy, in a cloud, laborious, obscure, rigorous, severe, tricky, wrapped in clouds Definition adj