AskDefine | Define laboriously

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laboriously adv : 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"

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English

Adverb

  1. With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
    He laboriously climbed the steep rock face, pulling himself up inch by inch.

Translations

with great expenditure of effort

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

ardently, arduously, assiduously, bec et ongles, burdensomely, difficultly, diligently, effortfully, energetically, fervently, hammer and tongs, hard, hardly, heart and soul, indefatigably, industriously, manfully, onerously, operosely, painfully, relentlessly, sedulously, strenuously, the hard way, tirelessly, toilsomely, tooth and nail, unsparingly, vehemently, with a will, with difficulty, with effort, with much ado, zealously
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