Laborious vs Sedulous - What's the difference?
laborious | sedulous | Related terms |
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
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Mentally difficult; painstaking
Industrious.
* Dryden
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
* 2001 Pollan, Michael , The Botany of Desire , Random House, New York, page 135:
* 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
Laborious is a related term of sedulous.
As adjectives the difference between laborious and sedulous
is that laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome while sedulous is diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.laborious
English
Alternative forms
* labourious * laborous * labourousAdjective
(en adjective)- Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious , and short.
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.
Synonyms
* (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksomeDerived terms
* laboriouslysedulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
- The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.