Labored
['leɪbəd]
Definition
(adj.) lacking natural ease; 'a labored style of debating' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Labor
(a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Elaborate, studied, carefully wrought.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Elaborate, studied, {carefully_wrought}
ANT:Not_elaborate, unstudied, easy, off_hard
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- In my early days, every one labored more or less, in the region where my youth was spent, and more in proportion to their private means. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The woman suddenly turned to her work, and labored with a despatch that was perfectly astonishing to Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We labored on and on, until it became evident that the top could not be reached before night, if at all in such a storm, and we concluded to return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He labored day and night, and the result of all his labors was the same. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the field during this decade also labored the German professors Gauss and Weber, and Baron Schilling of Russia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They were almost always fatal to the miners, and formed the greatest peril of those who labored underground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Vilma