Word of the Day:
operose
What It Means
Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking.
Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.
Operose in Context
“When this operose and hard-working student descended from his closet, and gained a sort of tacit leave from his tutor to join in the circle of us gay and high-spirited fellows, the part he played was no more advantageous to him, than his former exhibition had been among the learned.”
Did You Know?
From Latin operōsus.
Source and license
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