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	laborious

	
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	1 English
	1.1 Alternative forms
	1.2 Etymology
	1.3 Pronunciation
	1.4 Adjective
	1.4.1 Synonyms
	1.4.2 Derived terms
	1.4.3 Related terms
	1.4.4 Translations











English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

	labourious (obsolete)
	laborous (obsolete)
	labourous (obsolete)


Etymology[edit]

From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus.


Pronunciation[edit]

	IPA(key): /ləˈbɔːɹiəs/
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	Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs


Adjective[edit]

laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)


	Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
	1945 August 17,  George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair],  chapter 1, in  Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:	Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.






	Mentally difficult; painstaking.
	Industrious.
	1697,  “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London:  […]  Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, lines 241–242, page 129:	All, with united Force, combine to drive / The lazy Drones from the laborious Hive.








Synonyms[edit]

	(requiring effort): painstaking, toilsome, worksome


Derived terms[edit]

	laboriously


Related terms[edit]

	labor, labour


Translations[edit]


requiring much physical effort


	
	Bulgarian: труден (bg) (truden), напрегнат (bg) (napregnat)
	Catalan: laboriós
	Czech: pracný
	Dutch: bewerkelijk (nl), arbeidsintensief (nl), laborieus (nl)
	French: laborieux (fr)
	German: arbeitsintensiv
	Greek:
	Ancient: ἐπίπονος (epíponos), μογερός (mogerós)


	Irish: saothrach
	Italian: laborioso (it)


	
	
	Latin: labōriōsus
	Old English: earfoþe
	Polish: pracochłonny (pl), mozolny (pl)
	Portuguese: laborioso (pt), trabalhoso (pt)
	Romanian: laborios (ro)
	Russian: трудоёмкий (ru) (trudojómkij), тру́дный (ru) (trúdnyj), тяжёлый (ru) (tjažólyj), напряжённый (ru) (naprjažónnyj), утоми́тельный (ru) (utomítelʹnyj)
	Spanish: laborioso (es)
	Swedish: mödosam (sv), tung (sv)








mentally difficult


	
	Bulgarian: мъчен (bg) (mǎčen)
	Russian: кропотли́вый (ru) (kropotlívyj)


	
	





industrious — see industrious



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	Norman: (please verify) pénibl'ye (Jersey)


	
	












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