Antonyms for labored
ˈleɪ bərdla·bored

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1. labored

   Antonyms:
   not elaborate, unstudied, easy, off hard

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, studied, carefully wrought

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1. labored, laboured, strainedadjective

   lacking natural ease

   "a labored style of debating"

   Antonyms:
   effortless, graceful

   Synonyms:
   constrained, agonistic, strained, heavy, laboured, forced

2. heavy, labored, labouredadjective

   requiring or showing effort

   "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

   Antonyms:
   graceful, effortless

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, with child(p), sound, strained, wakeless, dense, grueling, heavy(p), threatening, grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, heavy, arduous, big(a), punishing, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

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1. laboredadjective

   Synonyms:
   studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural

How to use labored in a sentence?

1. Utah Rep. Ben McAdams:

   I am at home, feeling about as sick as I've ever been, it's really labored breathing, I feel like I have a belt around my chest that's really tight. When I cough, my muscles are so sore, so I just feel pain every time I cough, which is frequently.

2. Louie Michael:

   The breathing is labored, it's tough. This stuff is real.

3. Socrates:

   Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

4. Robertson Davies:

   He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

5. Brad Glosserman:

   No one knows really who this man is. He's labored behind the scenes, he hasn't yet developed and presented an image to the Japanese public that they're going to be able to rally behind and support.

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