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



RESET




Word of the Day

2 July 2025

RESTITUTION

(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”


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Coffee Trivia

The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.

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