Meaning of LABORED
| Pronunciation: | | 'leyburd
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- [adj] requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
- [adj] lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
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| | Synonyms: | | awkward, effortful, heavy, laboured, strained |
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| | Definition: | | \La"bored\, a.
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not
easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, alliterating, alliterative, arabesque, arduous, artificial, assonant, awkward, backbreaking, baroque, belabored, bombastic, burdensome, busy, chanting, chichi, chiming, cliche-ridden, clumsy, contrived, cramped, crushing, cumbrous, difficult, dingdong, effortful, elaborate, elegant, elephantine, excessive, fancy, farfetched, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, forced, formal, frilly, fussy, grueling, guinde, halting, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harping, heavy, hefty, Herculean, high-wrought, humdrum, inept, inkhorn, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, killing, laborious, Latinate, leaden, lumbering, luxuriant, luxurious, maladroit, monotone, monotonous, moresque, onerous, operose, oppressive, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, painful, picturesque, pompous, ponderous, pretty-pretty, punishing, rhymed, rhyming, rich, rococo, sesquipedalian, singsong, stiff, stilted, strained, strenuous, tedious, toilsome, tough, troublesome, turgid, unnatural, unwieldy, uphill, wearisome, weighty |
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