laborious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ləˈbɔːɹiəs/
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.
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
- (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksome
- French: laborieux
- German: arbeitsintensiv
- Italian: laborioso
- Portuguese: laborioso
- Russian: трудоёмкий
- Spanish: laborioso
- Russian: кропотли́вый
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