Meaning & use
laborious
Requiring a great deal of effort, time, or hard work.
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Restoring the old farmhouse turned out to be a laborious process that took two years.
Translating the entire manuscript by hand was a laborious task.
A note on using this word
Laborious describes a task as demanding, not the person doing it; use "hardworking" to describe a person.
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