OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 28726

laborious

/ləˈbɔːɹiəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
laborioso
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
The coal is then transferred to broad-gauge wagons for transport to Dublin. The transhipment is a rather laborious business, the coal being shovelled by hand from one wagon to anot…
dispendioso
Mentally difficult; painstaking.