"laborious" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ləˈbɔːɹiəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-laborious.wav [Southern-England], en-us-laborious.ogg [US] Forms: more laborious [comparative], most laborious [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs Etymology: From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|laborios}} Old French laborios, {{uder|en|la|laboriosus}} Latin laboriosus Head templates: {{en-adj}} laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)
  1. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome. Synonyms (requiring effort): painstaking, toilsome, worksome Translations (requiring much physical effort): ἐπίπονος (epíponos) (Ancient Greek), μογερός (mogerós) (Ancient Greek), труден (truden) (Bulgarian), напрегнат (napregnat) (Bulgarian), laboriós (Catalan), pracný (Czech), bewerkelijk (Dutch), arbeidsintensief (Dutch), laborieus (Dutch), laborieux (French), arbeitsintensiv (German), saothrach (Irish), laborioso (Italian), labōriōsus (Latin), earfoþe (Old English), pracochłonny (Polish), mozolny (Polish), laborioso (Portuguese), trabalhoso (Portuguese), laborios (Romanian), трудоёмкий (trudojómkij) (Russian), тру́дный (trúdnyj) (Russian), тяжёлый (tjažólyj) (Russian), напряжённый (naprjažónnyj) (Russian), утоми́тельный (utomítelʹnyj) (Russian), laborioso (Spanish), mödosam (Swedish), tung (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-laborious-en-adj-I0Dhrn69 Disambiguation of 'requiring effort': 93 7 0 Disambiguation of 'requiring much physical effort': 97 2 1
  2. Mentally difficult; painstaking. Translations (mentally difficult): мъчен (mǎčen) (Bulgarian), кропотли́вый (kropotlívyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-laborious-en-adj-67pJ5fzd Disambiguation of 'mentally difficult': 4 88 8
  3. Industrious.
    Sense id: en-laborious-en-adj-LNZ3kAjs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 22 54 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 23 21 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: labourious [obsolete], laborous [obsolete], labourous [obsolete] Derived forms: laboriously, laboriousness Related terms: labor, labour

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      "roman": "kropotlívyj",
      "sense": "mentally difficult",
      "word": "кропотли́вый"
    }
  ],
  "word": "laborious"
}

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