laborious
pronunciation
How to pronounce laborious in British English:
UK [ləˈbɔːriəs]
How to pronounce laborious in American English:
US [ləˈbɔːriəs]
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- Adjective:
- characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Word Origin
- laborious (adj.)
- late 14c., "hard-working, industrious," from Old French laborios "arduous, wearisome; hard-working" (12c., Modern French laborieux), from Latin laboriosus "toilsome, wearisome, troublesome," from labor (see labor (n.)). Meaning "costing much labor, burdensome" is from early 15c.; meaning "resulting from hard work" is mid-15c. Related: Laboriousness.
Example
- 1. But conventional cross-breeding is costly and laborious for grapes .
- 2. Registration is laborious and time-consuming , and would discourage the use of over-the-counter derivatives .
- 3. It takes 56 laborious steps to set up a business .
- 4. Hours after they finished the test on monday , both students had collected the answers from the district education bureau and begun the laborious process , with the help of their teachers , of estimating their scores .
- 5. That is a bit too laborious .