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What does laborious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word laborious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
  2. Mentally difficult; painstaking.
  3. Industrious.
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We are in danger of forgetting that democracy is a slow, laborious, messy matter.
It's a slow and laborious process and the first British-raised Wagyu meat won't go on sale until the end of this year.
Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
And yes, its implementation can be laborious, lengthy, and slow to show dividends.
Progress was slow and laborious, and his efforts yielded a quarter of the supplies he had lost.
This removes the laborious task of measuring the absolute leaf temperatures for individual plants in a population.

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