Laborious vs Cryptic - What's the difference?

Laborious is a related term of cryptic.

is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while cryptic is having hidden meaning.

(informal) a cryptic crossword.

* labourious * laborous * labourous

(en adjective)

Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious , and short.

Mentally difficult; painstaking

Industrious.

* Dryden

All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.

* (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksome

* laboriously

(wikipedia cryptic)

* cryptick (obsolete)

(en adjective)

Having hidden meaning.

Mystified or of an obscure nature.

* Glanvill

Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working.

Involving use of code or cipher/cypher.

(zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.

Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic .

(en noun)

(informal) A cryptic crossword.

* 1996 , Mary McCarthy, Remember Me (page 85)

He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent . He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.

* 2009 , Bill Taylor, Building a crossword'' (in ''Toronto Star , 1 February 2009)

This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.

* cryptically * cryptogram