laboriously
UK/ləˈbɔː.ɹi.əs.lɪ//ləˈbɔɹ.i.əs.li/
laboriously adverb: with great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
Adverb
laboriously (not comparable)
- With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
- The heavy man laboriously climbed the steep mountain, pulling himself up inch by inch.
- At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- painstakingly
laboriously meaning in Urdu and Bengali
laboriously in Urdu
- دشوار سے, جفاکشی سے, محنت سے, پرمشقت سے
laboriously in Bengali
- অত্যন্ত পরিশ্রম সহকারে
Synonyms of laboriously
Forms of laboriously
| alternative form | labouriously |
|---|---|
| alternative form | laborously |
| alternative form | labourously |
Origin of laboriously
From laborious + -ly.
Questions about laboriously
- What does laboriously mean?
- Laboriously means with great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
- What is laboriously in Urdu?
- Laboriously in Urdu is دشوار سے, جفاکشی سے, محنت سے. See Laboriously meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is laboriously?
- Laboriously is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce laboriously?
- Laboriously is pronounced /ləˈbɔː.ɹi.əs.lɪ/ (UK).
Words near laboriously in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: laboriously (page history and authors); laboriously (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laboriously (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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