laborious

laborious is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
2. adjective. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
3. adjective. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"

   "a grueling campaign"

   Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome

Synonyms

arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome

Common word forms

laboriously, laboriousness

Words from these letters

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