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

23 February 2025

BARGAIN

(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”


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Coffee Trivia

According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.

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