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What is the adjective for labor?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs labor and labour which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

laborious
  1. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
  2. Mentally difficult; painstaking.
  3. Industrious.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “But he became more and more irritated by the slow, laborious process of filming.”
      “He was gentle and kindly, living a laborious life in his Paris flat.”
      “Kathy put on a laborious smile and said hello. Her discomfort though, faded away, when her aunt handed her a golden bracelet, with diamonds that shone.”
laboured
  1. Of an action that is difficult to perform.
  2. Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “With each passing treatment, her laboured breathing became less laboured and the threat of being re-intubated decreased.”
      “The man behind the desk gave a laboured smile as he stood and shook Todd's outstretched hand.”
laboursome
  1. (obsolete) Hard-working.
  2. (now rare) Characterised or marked by labour; laborious; difficult, elaborate, involved.
labored
  1. Of an action that is difficult to perform.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “With each passing treatment, her labored breathing became less labored and the threat of being re-intubated decreased.”
      “The man behind the desk gave a labored smile as he stood and shook Todd's outstretched hand.”
laborless
  1. Not laborious; easy.
laborsome
  1. Alternative form of laboursome
  2. Examples:
    1. “Teaching firefighters solely through traditional means is a laborsome and costly process, tedious for both trainers and firefighters.”
      “Experimental approaches to identification of sumoylation sites may not be effective due to the dynamic nature of sumoylation, laborsome experiments and their cost.”
      “If the genetic architecture of a trait under consideration is unknown, it is hard to choose a proper WGP approach without a serial of laborsome model comparisons.”
labourless
  1. Alternative form of laborless
laborous
  1. Obsolete form of laborious.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Experts have already said that destroying chemical weapons would be a very laborous and difficult task which could take decades.”
      “The referendum questions are explained as somewhat misleading, and that the package is somewhat laborous.”
      “However, less laborous and complex methods are needed.”
labourous
  1. Obsolete form of laborious.
labourious
  1. Britain form of laborious
  2. Examples:
    1. “After a long and labourious explanation to the effect that we had been hijacked, we switched to French.”
      “Instead of the labourious counting of meal tickets, we are offering cash-free payment at school.”
      “Instead of the labourious loading of single parts, workpiece carriers are loaded or unloaded to the machine.”
laboring
labouring
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