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Laborious vs Exhausting - What's the difference?

laborious | exhausting | Related terms |

Laborious is a related term of exhausting.


As adjectives the difference between laborious and exhausting

is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while exhausting is very tiring.

As a verb exhausting is

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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

    exhausting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very tiring.
  • * This task is exhausting !

    • Verb

    (head)