'Labored' definitions:
Definition of 'labored'
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Definition of 'Labored'
From: GCIDE
- Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
- 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. [1913 Webster]
- Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. [1913 Webster]
- The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- The line too labors, and the words move slow. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28 [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Labored'
From: GCIDE
- Labored \La"bored\, a.
- 1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. [1913 Webster]
- 2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.
- Syn: heavy, laboured. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'labored'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Labored'
- Labor,
- Laborant,
- Laboredly,
- Laborer,
- Laboring,
- Laborous,
- Laborously,
- labor under,
- A labor of love,
- Free labor,
- Knights of labor,
- Labor Day,
- Laboring oar,
- Lip labor,
- Statute labor,
- agricultural laborer,
- bonded labor,
- day laborer,
- department of labor,
- false labor,
- hard labor,
- induction of labor,
- labor agreement,
- labor camp,
- labor coach,
- labor contract,
- labor department,
- labor force,
- labor in vain,
- labor leader,
- labor market,
- labor movement,
- labor of love,
- labor organizer,
- labor pain,
- labor pains,
- labor party,
- labor pool,
- labor resources,
- labor saving,
- labor secretary,
- labor union,
- manual labor,
- manual laborer,
- migrant laborer,
- organized labor,
- premature labor,
- secretary of labor,
- Day-labor,
- Day-laborer,
- Hard-labored,
- Labor-saving,
- american federation of labor,
- american labor party,
- australian labor party,
- department of commerce and labor,
- international labor organization,
- kurdistan labor pary,
- labor-intensive,
- secretary of commerce and labor,
- socialist labor party,
- farmer-labor party,
- national labor relations board,
- american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations