Laborious — Word of the Day September 05, 2026

Definition

Requiring considerable time and effort; not particularly skillful or artful. Laborious tasks are demanding and tedious.

“The laborious process of hand-copying manuscripts was eventually replaced by the printing press.”

From Latin laboriosus, from labor (labour, toil).

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LABORIOUS scores 11 points in Scrabble.