Definition of laborious in English:

laborious

adjective ləˈbɔːrɪəsləˈbɔriəs

1Requiring considerable time and effort.
years of laborious training
数年的艰苦训练。
the work is very slow and laborious
工作进展很缓慢，很费力。
Example sentencesExamples
- His photographs on show at Victoria Miro emerge out of a laborious process beginning with an image of a building or an interior.
- This removes the laborious task of measuring the absolute leaf temperatures for individual plants in a population.
- However, it makes the process of buying and selling slow and laborious and these accounts are in the minority.
- The work was slow and laborious - every piece of the hard rock had to be blasted out before being broken up with pick and shovel and hauled out of the horizontal shaft.
- This is slow and laborious, so the method outlined below avoids this step.
- After all, it took me many years of intense misery, guilt, shame and terror before I could learn to accept myself, and that too was a slow and laborious process.
- The journey was slow and laborious, necessitating frequent stops.
- And yes, its implementation can be laborious, lengthy, and slow to show dividends.
- The message would then continue to each major city or town by regular courier until it reached its destination, a very slow and laborious process.
- Progress was slow and laborious, and his efforts yielded a quarter of the supplies he had lost.
- The colourful faces are the result of laborious work.
- I thought about doing the slow, laborious walk, but shrugged off the idea.
- This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious.
- Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
- But he became more and more irritated by the slow, laborious process of filming.
- We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter.
- It's a slow and laborious process, though, on a creaky old dial-up phone connection.
- It has transformed laborious manual procedures into rapid electronic ones.
- The ruptures in Eakins's paintings also communicated the studious and laborious character of the artist's process.
- Unfortunately, this can be a slow, laborious, and very deadly process.
Synonyms
arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, gruelling, murderous, punishing, exacting, tough, formidable, onerous, burdensome, back-breaking, trying, uphill, relentless, stiff, challenging, Herculean
tiring, fatiguing, exhausting, wearying, wearing, taxing, enervating, demanding, wearisome
tedious, boring, irksome
British informal knackering
archaic toilsome
rare exigent
1. 1.1 (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency.
  （尤指讲话，写作风格）造作的，不流畅的
  she wrote in laborious, dictionary-assisted English
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing.
  His writing was laborious, as he often confessed, hers brisk and often effortless.
  Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush.
  But I found it impossible to get to grips with, laborious and dull.
  The Watcher In The Woods is guilty of being slow and laborious.
  Not even the charisma of its leading lady, Julia Stiles, can save it from the overlong bore it becomes, due to its laborious pacing and cliché-ridden script.
  Synonyms
  laboured, strained, forced, contrived, affected, studied, stiff, stilted, unnatural, artificial, overdone, overwrought, heavy, ponderous, convoluted, not fluent, elaborate, over-elaborate, intricate, ornate, prolix

Derivatives

laboriousness

noun ləˈbɔːrɪəsnəsləˈbɔriəsnəs

A self-taught pianist, she trudges through the 14 songs on her debut, One Cell in the Sea with a kind of laboriousness that distracts from her sweet soprano and tales of love and friendship.
Example sentencesExamples
- Structure-based drug design is a technique that has been around since the 1980's but has not been fully exploited due to the laboriousness of obtaining crystal structures by traditional means.
- The popularity of text messaging, as it became known, took the mobile industry by surprise, and young people even invented their own language of abbreviations and ‘smileys’ to overcome the laboriousness of typing with a ten-key keypad.
- The unity of the piece shifts from its poetry to its formal presence to its material, before landing on laboriousness as its central preoccupation.
- Customary manual creation of virtual reality models of real world scenes is tedious and error-prone work as the scene complexity increases and any automation can substantially reduce the laboriousness and consequently the cost of the whole process.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense 'industrious, assiduous'): from Old French laborieux, from Latin laboriosus, from labor 'labour'.

Rhymes

censorious, glorious, meritorious, notorious, uproarious, uxorious, vainglorious, victorious

Definition of laborious in US English:

laborious

adjectiveləˈbɔriəsləˈbôrēəs

1(especially of a task, process, or journey) requiring considerable effort and time.
（尤指任务、过程或旅行）费时费力的
years of laborious training
数年的艰苦训练。
the work is very slow and laborious
工作进展很缓慢，很费力。
Example sentencesExamples
- After all, it took me many years of intense misery, guilt, shame and terror before I could learn to accept myself, and that too was a slow and laborious process.
- Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
- The work was slow and laborious - every piece of the hard rock had to be blasted out before being broken up with pick and shovel and hauled out of the horizontal shaft.
- This is slow and laborious, so the method outlined below avoids this step.
- This removes the laborious task of measuring the absolute leaf temperatures for individual plants in a population.
- Unfortunately, this can be a slow, laborious, and very deadly process.
- And yes, its implementation can be laborious, lengthy, and slow to show dividends.
- However, it makes the process of buying and selling slow and laborious and these accounts are in the minority.
- It's a slow and laborious process, though, on a creaky old dial-up phone connection.
- It has transformed laborious manual procedures into rapid electronic ones.
- Progress was slow and laborious, and his efforts yielded a quarter of the supplies he had lost.
- I thought about doing the slow, laborious walk, but shrugged off the idea.
- The colourful faces are the result of laborious work.
- The journey was slow and laborious, necessitating frequent stops.
- This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious.
- But he became more and more irritated by the slow, laborious process of filming.
- The message would then continue to each major city or town by regular courier until it reached its destination, a very slow and laborious process.
- His photographs on show at Victoria Miro emerge out of a laborious process beginning with an image of a building or an interior.
- We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter.
- The ruptures in Eakins's paintings also communicated the studious and laborious character of the artist's process.
Synonyms
arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, gruelling, murderous, punishing, exacting, tough, formidable, onerous, burdensome, back-breaking, trying, uphill, relentless, stiff, challenging, herculean
1. 1.1 (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency.
  （尤指讲话，写作风格）造作的，不流畅的
  his slow, laborious style
  他拖沓、不流畅的风格。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But I found it impossible to get to grips with, laborious and dull.
  The Watcher In The Woods is guilty of being slow and laborious.
  Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush.
  His writing was laborious, as he often confessed, hers brisk and often effortless.
  It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing.
  Not even the charisma of its leading lady, Julia Stiles, can save it from the overlong bore it becomes, due to its laborious pacing and cliché-ridden script.
  Synonyms
  laboured, strained, forced, contrived, affected, studied, stiff, stilted, unnatural, artificial, overdone, overwrought, heavy, ponderous, convoluted, not fluent, elaborate, over-elaborate, intricate, ornate, prolix

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘industrious, assiduous’): from Old French laborieux, from Latin laboriosus, from labor ‘labor’.

单词	laborious
释义	Definition of laborious in English: laborious adjective ləˈbɔːrɪəsləˈbɔriəs 1Requiring considerable time and effort. years of laborious training 数年的艰苦训练。 the work is very slow and laborious 工作进展很缓慢，很费力。 Example sentencesExamples His photographs on show at Victoria Miro emerge out of a laborious process beginning with an image of a building or an interior. This removes the laborious task of measuring the absolute leaf temperatures for individual plants in a population. However, it makes the process of buying and selling slow and laborious and these accounts are in the minority. The work was slow and laborious - every piece of the hard rock had to be blasted out before being broken up with pick and shovel and hauled out of the horizontal shaft. This is slow and laborious, so the method outlined below avoids this step. After all, it took me many years of intense misery, guilt, shame and terror before I could learn to accept myself, and that too was a slow and laborious process. The journey was slow and laborious, necessitating frequent stops. And yes, its implementation can be laborious, lengthy, and slow to show dividends. The message would then continue to each major city or town by regular courier until it reached its destination, a very slow and laborious process. Progress was slow and laborious, and his efforts yielded a quarter of the supplies he had lost. The colourful faces are the result of laborious work. I thought about doing the slow, laborious walk, but shrugged off the idea. This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious. Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading. But he became more and more irritated by the slow, laborious process of filming. We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter. It's a slow and laborious process, though, on a creaky old dial-up phone connection. It has transformed laborious manual procedures into rapid electronic ones. The ruptures in Eakins's paintings also communicated the studious and laborious character of the artist's process. Unfortunately, this can be a slow, laborious, and very deadly process. Synonyms arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, gruelling, murderous, punishing, exacting, tough, formidable, onerous, burdensome, back-breaking, trying, uphill, relentless, stiff, challenging, Herculean tiring, fatiguing, exhausting, wearying, wearing, taxing, enervating, demanding, wearisome tedious, boring, irksome British informal knackering archaic toilsome rare exigent 1.1 (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency. （尤指讲话，写作风格）造作的，不流畅的 she wrote in laborious, dictionary-assisted English Example sentencesExamples It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing. His writing was laborious, as he often confessed, hers brisk and often effortless. Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush. But I found it impossible to get to grips with, laborious and dull. The Watcher In The Woods is guilty of being slow and laborious. Not even the charisma of its leading lady, Julia Stiles, can save it from the overlong bore it becomes, due to its laborious pacing and cliché-ridden script. Synonyms laboured, strained, forced, contrived, affected, studied, stiff, stilted, unnatural, artificial, overdone, overwrought, heavy, ponderous, convoluted, not fluent, elaborate, over-elaborate, intricate, ornate, prolix Derivatives laboriousness noun ləˈbɔːrɪəsnəsləˈbɔriəsnəs A self-taught pianist, she trudges through the 14 songs on her debut, One Cell in the Sea with a kind of laboriousness that distracts from her sweet soprano and tales of love and friendship. Example sentencesExamples Structure-based drug design is a technique that has been around since the 1980's but has not been fully exploited due to the laboriousness of obtaining crystal structures by traditional means. The popularity of text messaging, as it became known, took the mobile industry by surprise, and young people even invented their own language of abbreviations and ‘smileys’ to overcome the laboriousness of typing with a ten-key keypad. The unity of the piece shifts from its poetry to its formal presence to its material, before landing on laboriousness as its central preoccupation. Customary manual creation of virtual reality models of real world scenes is tedious and error-prone work as the scene complexity increases and any automation can substantially reduce the laboriousness and consequently the cost of the whole process. Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense 'industrious, assiduous'): from Old French laborieux, from Latin laboriosus, from labor 'labour'. Rhymes censorious, glorious, meritorious, notorious, uproarious, uxorious, vainglorious, victorious Definition of laborious in US English: laborious adjectiveləˈbɔriəsləˈbôrēəs 1(especially of a task, process, or journey) requiring considerable effort and time. （尤指任务、过程或旅行）费时费力的 years of laborious training 数年的艰苦训练。 the work is very slow and laborious 工作进展很缓慢，很费力。 Example sentencesExamples After all, it took me many years of intense misery, guilt, shame and terror before I could learn to accept myself, and that too was a slow and laborious process. Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading. The work was slow and laborious - every piece of the hard rock had to be blasted out before being broken up with pick and shovel and hauled out of the horizontal shaft. This is slow and laborious, so the method outlined below avoids this step. This removes the laborious task of measuring the absolute leaf temperatures for individual plants in a population. Unfortunately, this can be a slow, laborious, and very deadly process. And yes, its implementation can be laborious, lengthy, and slow to show dividends. However, it makes the process of buying and selling slow and laborious and these accounts are in the minority. It's a slow and laborious process, though, on a creaky old dial-up phone connection. It has transformed laborious manual procedures into rapid electronic ones. Progress was slow and laborious, and his efforts yielded a quarter of the supplies he had lost. I thought about doing the slow, laborious walk, but shrugged off the idea. The colourful faces are the result of laborious work. The journey was slow and laborious, necessitating frequent stops. This is not to say all research work performed in such an environment is necessarily dull and laborious. But he became more and more irritated by the slow, laborious process of filming. The message would then continue to each major city or town by regular courier until it reached its destination, a very slow and laborious process. His photographs on show at Victoria Miro emerge out of a laborious process beginning with an image of a building or an interior. We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter. The ruptures in Eakins's paintings also communicated the studious and laborious character of the artist's process. Synonyms arduous, hard, heavy, difficult, strenuous, gruelling, murderous, punishing, exacting, tough, formidable, onerous, burdensome, back-breaking, trying, uphill, relentless, stiff, challenging, herculean 1.1 (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency. （尤指讲话，写作风格）造作的，不流畅的 his slow, laborious style 他拖沓、不流畅的风格。 Example sentencesExamples But I found it impossible to get to grips with, laborious and dull. The Watcher In The Woods is guilty of being slow and laborious. Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush. His writing was laborious, as he often confessed, hers brisk and often effortless. It has some glimmers of interest, and some diverting visuals, but really nothing makes up for the laborious pace and risibly bad writing. Not even the charisma of its leading lady, Julia Stiles, can save it from the overlong bore it becomes, due to its laborious pacing and cliché-ridden script. Synonyms laboured, strained, forced, contrived, affected, studied, stiff, stilted, unnatural, artificial, overdone, overwrought, heavy, ponderous, convoluted, not fluent, elaborate, over-elaborate, intricate, ornate, prolix Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘industrious, assiduous’): from Old French laborieux, from Latin laboriosus, from labor ‘labor’.
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