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laboriously
[ luh-bawr-ee-uhs-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that involves or requires much effort, exertion, care, or attention to detail:
All equipment, food, and fuel have to be laboriously carried to the summit.
Books were still rare, since they needed to be laboriously handwritten by scribes.
Other Words From
- qua·si-la·bo·ri·ous·ly adverb
- su·per·la·bo·ri·ous·ly adverb
- un·la·bo·ri·ous·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of laboriously1
Example Sentences
She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.
The list of phrases has grown manually and laboriously to more than 5000 known “fingerprints” of potential misconduct.
One of his grandchildren brings out a plastic chair and he sits down, breathing laboriously.
Once upon a time, for reasons that are laboriously teased out, he landed in the jungle, where he was taken under wing by a punishing caretaker, the Shaman.
Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.
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