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laborieux — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • laborious adj Requiring a great deal of physical effort; tiring and hard work.
  • painful adj Causing physical or emotional pain.
  • tedious adj Boring and drawn out, especially because it takes a long time or is repetitive.

Senses

laborieux 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.

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