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Drudgery vs Operose - What's the difference?

drudgery | operose |

As a noun drudgery

is tedious, menial and exhausting work.

As an adjective operose is

wrought with, requiring, or evidencing a lot of labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.

drudgery

English

Noun

  • tedious, menial and exhausting work
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
    • we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

    Synonyms

    * tedium * moil * See also

    Derived terms

    * drudgerous (rare)

    operose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wrought with, requiring, or evidencing a lot of labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1662 , year_published= 1666 , author= , by= , title= Origines Sacrae, Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith, as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures, and Matters Therein Contained , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=YGD3Cq598bIC&pg=PA103 , original= , chapter= The Truth of Scripture-History asserted. , section= , isbn= , edition= 3rd , publisher= R.W. for Henry Mortlock , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 103 , passage= when there was so great reason to make it common, since the square letters'' are less operose , more expedite and facile, then the ''Samaritan'', which is, when time serves, used as a plea for their great ''Antiquity . }}
  • * 1759 — , Theory of Moral Sentiments , page 182
    • Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling convenencies to the body.
  • Describing a person who is busy, industrious, or painstaking.
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    • , year= 1805 , year_published= 1853 , author= , by= , title= , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LV0JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42 , original= , chapter= V , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Richard Bentley , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 42 , passage= When this operose and hard-working student descended from his closet, and gained a sort of tacit leave from his tutor to join in the circle of us gay and high-spirited fellows, the part he played was no more advantageous to him, than his former exhibition had been among the learned. }} ----