Laboured vs Laborious - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between laboured and laborious

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

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(mostly U.S. ): labored.

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(en adjective)

Of an action that is difficult to perform.

At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted.

Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

* labourious * laborous * labourous

(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.

* (requiring effort) painstaking, toilsome, worksome

* laboriously