Laboured vs Wooden - What's the difference?
laboured | wooden | Synonyms |
(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.
Made of wood.
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, title= (label) As if made of wood, moving awkwardly, unmoving.
Laboured is a synonym of wooden.
As adjectives the difference between laboured and wooden
is that laboured is of an action that is difficult to perform while wooden is made of wood.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.
wooden
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}