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Laborious vs Labored - What's the difference?

laborious | labored |

As adjectives the difference between laborious and labored

is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while labored is of an action that is difficult to perform.

As a verb labored is

past tense of labor.

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

    labored

    English

    Alternative forms

    (mostly British ): laboured.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (labor)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of an action that is difficult to perform.
    • At the end of the marathon, her labored breathing told us she was exhausted.

    Anagrams

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