Laboured vs Artificial - What's the difference?
laboured | artificial |
(labour)
Of an action that is difficult to perform.
Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
As adjectives the difference between laboured and artificial
is that laboured is of an action that is difficult to perform while artificial is man-made; of artifice.As a verb laboured
is (labour).laboured
English
Alternative forms
(mostly U.S. ): labored.Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted.
artificial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}
