Laborious vs Exhausted - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between laborious and exhausted

is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while exhausted is depleted; in a state of exhaustion.

(exhaust).

* 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

(en adjective)

Depleted; in a state of exhaustion.

The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.

The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.

* See also

* exhaustedly

(head)

(exhaust)