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How to pronounce laborious in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome
Derivation labor, laboriousness


spent many laborious hours on the project.

Examples of laborious

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Lenders were all too happy to use it as a substitute for laborious underwriting.
From the businessweek.com
Sundaresan says accessing and analyzing the company's data used to be laborious.
From the forbes.com
Trill fashioned it using a laborious process, beating the metal from both sides.
From the metro.co.uk
It is enough though to give you the drive to complete a long and laborious page.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The problem is that the path to getting there is slow, laborious, and expensive.
From the techcrunch.com
After months of laborious rehab, Pace's 2007 season lasted less than half a game.
From the stltoday.com
Reform in urban districts, he cautioned, is at best a long and laborious process.
From the stltoday.com
Ratay has a laborious chore ahead of him before he can unleash his inner freak.
From the omaha.com
The career curve for students on Wright's vocal course is usually more laborious.
From the metro.co.uk
More examples
  • Arduous: 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"
  • (laboriously) in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"
  • (laboriousness) the quality of requiring extended effort
  • Requiring much physical effort; toilsome; Mentally difficult; painstaking; Industrious
  • (laboriously) With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor
  • Work; especially referring to hard work of low salary.