Painstaking vs Laboured - What's the difference?

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Painstaking is a related term of laboured.

As adjectives the difference between painstaking and laboured

is that painstaking is carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure while laboured is of an action that is difficult to perform.

As a noun painstaking

is the application of careful and attentive effort.

As a verb laboured is

(labour).

painstaking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Carefully attentive to details; diligent in performing a process or procedure.

* Harris

All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

* painstakingly, painstakingness

Noun

The application of careful and attentive effort.

*, II.10:

*:I esteeme Bocace'' his ''Decameron'', ''Rabelais'', and the kisses of ''John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.

* (Thomas Chalmers)

It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.

* (Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham)

Behold what an abundant recompense attends the small processes of the earth, with the help of a little warm air; and what wealthy returns the industry of the husbandman and the florist is preparing from a few seeds and painstakings .

laboured

English

Alternative forms

(mostly U.S. ): labored.

Verb

(head)

(labour)

Adjective

(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.