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comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome. quotations examples
Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
Mentally difficult; painstaking. examples
Industrious. quotations examples
All, with united Force, combine to drive / The lazy Drones from the laborious Hive.
1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], page 129, lines 241–242