勤奋 — meaning in English

English meaning

• laborious adj Requiring a great deal of physical effort; tiring and hard work.
• painful adj Causing physical or emotional pain.

Senses

勤奋 is used for these senses in English:

• laborious Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
• painful Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. [from 15th c.]

laborious — full definition

1. adj Requiring a great deal of physical effort; tiring and hard work.
2. adj Slow, difficult, and demanding careful effort mentally, rather than fun or quick.

painful — full definition

1. adj Causing physical or emotional pain.
2. adj Informal: very bad or embarrassing in quality.