Synonyms

laboriously

American

[luh-bawr-ee-uhs-lee] / ləˈbɔr i əs li /

adverb

in a way that involves or requires much effort, exertion, care, or attention to detail.

All equipment, food, and fuel have to be laboriously carried to the summit.
Books were still rare, since they needed to be laboriously handwritten by scribes.

Other Word Forms

quasi-laboriously adverb
superlaboriously adverb
unlaboriously adverb

Etymology

Origin of laboriously

laborious ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

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She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” laboriously measuring the positions and brightness of thousands of stars on photographic plates.

From Salon

The list of phrases has grown manually and laboriously to more than 5000 known “fingerprints” of potential misconduct.

From Science Magazine

One of his grandchildren brings out a plastic chair and he sits down, breathing laboriously.

From BBC

Once upon a time, for reasons that are laboriously teased out, he landed in the jungle, where he was taken under wing by a punishing caretaker, the Shaman.

From New York Times

Once upon a time, alpinists laboriously hacked steps into it — literal stairways to heaven.

From Los Angeles Times

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