Crossword-Solution: LABORIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Laborious | a. | Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. |
| Laborious | a. | Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic. |
We have 50 clues for the answer “LABORIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| involving great prolonged effort | 1 answer |
| SHOWING signs of toil | 1 answer |
| Requiring much time and effort | 1 answer |
| operose | 2 answers |
| labouring | 8 answers |
| Musclebound | 9 answers |
| effortful | 13 answers |
| Toilsome. | 17 answers |
| Hard-working | 17 answers |
| involving effort | 19 answers |
| imperspicuous | 23 answers |
| fatiguing | 25 answers |
| Wearying | 27 answers |
| straining | 27 answers |
| Back-breaking | 28 answers |
| uphill | 28 answers |
| tiring | 29 answers |
| Strenuous. | 32 answers |
| shattering | 33 answers |
| Taxing | 34 answers |
| Protracted | 35 answers |
| bruising | 39 answers |
| torturing | 40 answers |
| racking | 40 answers |
| Struggling | 40 answers |
| excruciating | 40 answers |
| Ungracious | 42 answers |
| disquieting | 42 answers |
| agonising | 43 answers |
| Tearing | 45 answers |
| Weary | 46 answers |
| Exhausting. | 47 answers |
| Harrowing | 47 answers |
| saddening | 48 answers |
| worrying | 48 answers |
| gruelling | 49 answers |
| Tiresome | 50 answers |
| Herculean | 50 answers |
| crushing | 51 answers |
| Lengthy | 51 answers |
| Aching | 52 answers |
| Wearisome | 55 answers |
| Onerous | 56 answers |
| Throbbing | 57 answers |
| arduous | 59 answers |
| Burdensome | 59 answers |
| Toil | 62 answers |
| Diligent. | 63 answers |
| Fierce. | 78 answers |
| Difficult | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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Sentences with LABORIOUS (5)
But the Field To labour calls us now with sweat impos’d, Though after sleepless Night; for see the Morn, All unconcern’d with our unrest, begins Her rosie progress smiling; let us forth, I never from thy side henceforth to stray, Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind Laborious, till day droop; while here we dwell, What can be toilsom in these pleasant Walkes? Here let us live, though in fall’n state, content.
Marie took with her to the convent, under the canvas lining of her trunk, the results of a laborious and satisfying morning on Frank’s part; no less than a dozen photographs of himself, taken in a dozen different love-lorn attitudes.
Nor, when checking each of the average six to seven words contained in the Virgilian hexameter for its usage elsewhere in Virgil's works or other Latin authors, would DALY have had to maintain the laborious mechanical process of flipping through these concordances, lexica, and editions each time.
Nor did these pursuits distract Bacon’s attention from a work the most arduous, the most glorious, and the most useful that even his mighty powers could have achieved, “the reducing and recompiling,” to use his own phrase, “of the laws of England.” To serve the exacting and laborious offices of Attorney-General and Solicitor-General would have satisfied the appetite of any other man for hard work, but Bacon had to add the vast literary industries just described, to satisfy his.
Thither the bees came, however, and plunged into the squash-blossoms, as if there were no other squash-vines within a long day’s flight, or as if the soil of Hepzibah’s garden gave its productions just the very quality which these laborious little wizards wanted, in order to impart the Hymettus odor to their whole hive of New England honey.
Quotes with LABORIOUS (3)
When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for him, let him be solaced, let him be succoured; or, at least, let him be permitted to enjoy the fruit of his labour; let not his substance be ravaged from him by cruel imposts; let him not be discouraged from work, by finding all his labour inadequate to support his existence, let h…
The glass is half full, the glass is half empty or nothing is in the glass, these are the metaphorical situations created by our mind to give ourselves hope, which is to expect something better in the future or to hold on to what we have in hand. Success is always about playing these situations to perfection. The level of our play will be proportionate to the level of hope, which again is a laborious form of a wish. A wish is belief in miracles but a hope is working to get du…
(On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and, because of this shooting, whole countries were at war. It seemed a laborious method of retribution, but that was the way it was being done. ... A messenger came to the farm with a story to tell. It was not a story that meant much as stories went in those days. It was about how the war progressed in German East Africa and about a tall young man who was killed in it. ... …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2020).