| slovo | definícia |  
laborious (encz) | laborious,pracný	adj:		j_polach@email.cz |  
Laborious (gcide) | Laborious \La*bo"ri*ous\, a. [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor:
    cf. F. laborieux.]
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome;
       tiresome.
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             Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
             Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
                                                   --Addison.
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    2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious
       mechanic.
       [1913 Webster] -- La*bo"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
       La*bo"ri*ous*ness, n.
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laborious (wn) | laborious
     adj 1: 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" [syn: arduous,
            backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
            laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome] |  
  | | podobné slovo | definícia |  
laborious (encz) | laborious,pracný	adj:		j_polach@email.cz |  
laboriously (encz) | laboriously,pracně	adv:		j_polach@email.cz |  
laboriousness (encz) | laboriousness,pracnost	n:		J. Polach |  
arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome (gcide) | effortful \effortful\ adj.
    1. requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.
       [Narrower terms: {arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking,
       grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
       punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome}; {exhausting,
       tiring, wearing, wearying}] Also See: difficult, hard.
       [WordNet 1.5] |  
Laboriously (gcide) | Laborious \La*bo"ri*ous\, a. [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor:
    cf. F. laborieux.]
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome;
       tiresome.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
             Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
                                                   --Addison.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious
       mechanic.
       [1913 Webster] -- La*bo"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
       La*bo"ri*ous*ness, n.
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Laboriousness (gcide) | Laborious \La*bo"ri*ous\, a. [L. laboriosus, fr. labor labor:
    cf. F. laborieux.]
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome;
       tiresome.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil,
             Laborious virtues all? Learn these from Cato.
                                                   --Addison.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious
       mechanic.
       [1913 Webster] -- La*bo"ri*ous*ly, adv. --
       La*bo"ri*ous*ness, n.
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Unlaborious (gcide) | Unlaborious \Unlaborious\
    See laborious. |  
laborious (wn) | laborious
     adj 1: 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" [syn: arduous,
            backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
            laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome] |  
laboriously (wn) | laboriously
     adv 1: 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 (wn) | laboriousness
     n 1: the quality of requiring extended effort [syn:
          laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness] |  
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