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Disquieting vs Laborious - What's the difference?

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Disquieting is a related term of laborious.


As adjectives the difference between disquieting and laborious

is that disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy while laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

As a verb disquieting

is .

As a noun disquieting

is the act by which someone or something is disquieted.

disquieting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
  • * Edward Reynolds
    • Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience

    laborious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * labourious * laborous * labourous

    Adjective

    (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.

    Synonyms

    * (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksome

    Derived terms

    * laboriously