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- Dictionarylaboriously/ləˈbɔːrɪəsli/
adverb
- 1. in a way that takes considerable time and effort: "the boys were laboriously copying down sentences from the blackboard"
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See. laborious. Fewer examples. The wildflowers are laboriously hand pressed to make perfumes. The animals were slowly, laboriously moving around their enclosure. He obtained a dictionary and laboriously set about reading it. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Complicated and difficult to do. advanced. ambitiously. another. arduous.
adverb. us / ləˈbɔːr.i.əs.li / uk / ləˈbɔː.ri.əs.li / Add to word list. in a way that needs a lot of time and effort: He wrote out the list laboriously by hand. This is a highly detailed, laboriously researched study. See. laborious. Fewer examples. The wildflowers are laboriously hand pressed to make perfumes.
: involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous. Overland travel was not an adventurous communal leap, but a laborious, individual trek. Daniel J. Boorstin. Making a telescope mirror is a long and laborious process. David Devoss and Eric Sander. b. : characterized by long, detailed elaboration : tedious.
When it takes a huge, slow effort to do something, you do it laboriously. For some students, math is a breeze — others have to study laboriously for every quiz. Whether you're exerting yourself physically or mentally, if it takes a lot of effort and time, you're working laboriously.
LABORIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of laborious in English. laborious. adjective. uk / ləˈbɔː.ri.əs / us / ləˈbɔːr.i.əs / Add to word list. needing a lot of time and effort: a laborious task. Synonyms. arduous. backbreaking. gruelling mainly UK. hard. punishing. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Laboriously definition: in a way that involves or requires much effort, exertion, care, or attention to detail. See examples of LABORIOUSLY used in a sentence.
Definition of laboriously adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. laboriously. adverb. /ləˈbɔːriəsli/ in a way that takes a lot of time and effort. An agreement was laboriously worked out. Want to learn more?
The earliest known use of the adverb laboriously is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for laboriously is from around 1487, in a translation by John Skelton, poet. laboriously is formed within English, by derivation.
adjective. If you describe a task or job as laborious, you mean that it takes a lot of time and effort. Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task. Synonyms: hard, difficult, tiring, exhausting More Synonyms of laborious. laboriously adverb [ADVERB with verb] He sat behind a desk laboriously writing with an Army issue pen.
Define laboriously. laboriously synonyms, laboriously pronunciation, laboriously translation, English dictionary definition of laboriously. adj. 1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project.
