| 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.
[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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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] |
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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.
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Laborious
(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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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. |
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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