Arduously vs Laboriously - What's the difference?
arduously | laboriously |
With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
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As adverbs the difference between arduously and laboriously
is that arduously is in an arduous manner while laboriously is with great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.laboriously
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Alternative forms
* labouriously * laborously (obsolete) * labourously (qualifier)Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously , with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}