Synonyms for laborious
ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr-la·bo·ri·ous

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1. laboriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   painstaking, worksome, toilsome

2. laboriousadjective

   Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.

   Synonyms:
   worksome, toilsome, painstaking

3. laboriousadjective

   Mentally difficult; painstaking

   Synonyms:
   painstaking, worksome, toilsome

4. laboriousadjective

   Industrious.

   Synonyms:
   worksome, toilsome, painstaking

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1. laborious

   Arduous (Latin arduus, steep) signifies primarily so steep and lofty as to be difficult of ascent, and hence applies to that which involves great and sustained exertion and ordinarily for a lofty aim; great learning can only be won by arduous toil. Hard applies to anything that resists our endeavors as a scarcely penetrable mass resists our physical force. Anything is hard that involves tax and strain whether of the physical or mental powers. Difficult is not used of that which merely taxes physical force; a dead lift is called hard rather than difficult; breaking stone on the road would be called hard rather than difficult work; that is difficult which involves skill, sagacity, or address, with or without a considerable expenditure of physical force; a geometrical problem may be difficult to solve, a tangled skein to unravel; a mountain difficult to ascend. Hard may be active or passive; a thing may be hard to do or hard to bear. Arduous is always active. That which is laborious or toilsome simply requires the steady application of labor or toil till accomplished; toilsome is the stronger word. That which is onerous (Latin onus, a burden) is mentally burdensome or oppressive. Responsibility may be onerous even when it involves no special exertion.

   Synonyms:
   arduous, difficult, exhausting, hard, onerous, severe, toilsome, trying

   Antonyms:
   easy, facile, light, pleasant, slight, trifling, trivial

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1. laborious

   Synonyms:
   assiduous, diligent, painstaking, indefatigable, arduous, burdensome, toilsome, wearisome, industrious, hard-working, active, difficult, tedious

   Antonyms:
   idle, indiligent, lazy, indolent, easy, facile, light, feasible, simple

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1. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

   characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

   Synonyms:
   backbreaking, sullen, ponderous, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, straining, severe, cloggy, lumbering, large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, voiceless, grievous, tough, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, unvoiced, gruelling, expectant, concentrated, lowering, surd, heavy(a), sonorous, impenetrable, arduous, operose, strenuous, heavy, heavy(p), big(a), labored, profound, difficult, laboured, punishing, strong, gravid, big(p), leaden, knockout

   Antonyms:
   effortless

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1. laboriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   industrious, sedulous, assiduous, DILIGENT, toiling, hard-working, painstaking

2. laboriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   difficult, arduous, onerous, toilsome, tiresome, wearisome, fatiguing, irksome, hard, herculean

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1. laboriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   toilsome, arduous, onerous, diligent, industrious, sedulous

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1. List of paraphrases for "laborious":

   painstaking, arduous, time-consuming, hard-working, difficult, cumbersome, industrious, labourious, hardworking, painful, tedious

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1. Euclid Tsakalotos:

   After weeks of laborious negotiations, if there is a real will from the other side, it will be clear that the discussion has reached a level where an agreement is very close and will be reached in the coming period.

2. Winston Churchill:

   To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

3. Victor Cousin:

   All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

4. Henry Louis Mencken:

   Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

5. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker:

   The agreement was laborious, but it has been concluded. There is no Grexit.