laborious
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Synonyms & Antonyms for laborious
Synonyms
active, assiduous, bustling, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, hopping, industrious, occupied, sedulous, tied-up, working
Antonyms
idle, inactive, unbusy, unemployed, unoccupied
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Required fields are indicated by an asterisk (*) It's been slow, laborious work. — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, "Breeders toughen up bees to resist deadly mites," 25 July 2019 And all these tasks are also performed outdoors in temperatures topping 100 degrees, making an already laborious process even more so. — Emily Price, Fortune, "How Mezcal’s Boom Is Helping Lift Its Makers Out of Extreme Poverty," 20 July 2019 To this day, rather than go through the laborious process of seeking parental consent, most websites, apps and social media platforms simply state that users must be at least 13. — Julie Jargon, WSJ, "How 13 Became the Internet’s Age of Adulthood," 18 June 2019 That's a laborious, time-consuming process that requires every road sign, lane marker, car, pedestrian, and other relevant object to be categorized for each frame of video. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "Elon Musk promises big new Tesla Autopilot upgrade, but is it legal?," 10 Dec. 2018 Miami resident Zuilem Casas has just lived through the laborious process with her mother, a 70-year-old book editor who had already visited her several times and has no intention of staying. — Sarah Moreno, miamiherald, "Cuban immigrants are no longer 'privileged' in the United States | Miami Herald," 24 May 2018 Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 campaign famously required 22 different people to sign off on a Tweet, a laborious process that robbed any sense of spontaneity or authenticity from the messages. — Annie Linskey, BostonGlobe.com, "Trump’s tweets include grammatical errors. And some are on purpose," 22 May 2018 Shopping for a wedding dress can be a long, laborious process. — Halie Lesavage, Glamour, "This Bridal Brand Is Introducing Wedding Dress Samples in Sizes 2 Through 24," 9 May 2018 Sometimes, getting free reward cards is a laborious process. — Southern Living, "Get Rewards for Shopping with This Google App," 3 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'laborious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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