Laborious vs Dogged - What's the difference?
laborious | dogged | Related terms |
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
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Mentally difficult; painstaking
Industrious.
* Dryden
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
Laborious is a related term of dogged.
As adjectives the difference between laborious and dogged
is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a verb dogged is
(dog).laborious
English
Alternative forms
* labourious * laborous * labourousAdjective
(en adjective)- Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious , and short.
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
Synonyms
* (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksomeDerived terms
* laboriouslydogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .Adjective
(en adjective)- Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
