LABORIOUS


Meaning of LABORIOUS in English

adj. 1 needing hard work or toil (a laborious task). 2 (esp. of literary style) showing signs of toil; pedestrian; not fluent. laboriously adv. laboriousness n.

[ ME f. OF laborieus f. L laboriosus (as LABOUR) ]

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