LABOURED

heavy, labored, laboured

(adjective) requiring or showing effort; “heavy breathing”; “the subject made for labored reading”

labored, laboured, strained

(adjective) lacking natural ease; “a labored style of debating”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

laboured

simple past tense and past participle of labour

Adjective

laboured (comparative more laboured, superlative most laboured)

Expressive of strenuous effort.

Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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Coffee Trivia

Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.

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