laboriously

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ləˈbɔː.ɹi.əs.lɪ/ (UK)
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/ləˈbɔː.ɹi.əs.lɪ/ (UK) · /ləˈbɔɹ.i.əs.li/ (US)

Definition of laboriously

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
    “The heavy man laboriously climbed the steep mountain, pulling himself up inch by inch.”
    “At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.”
    “For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.”

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Etymology

From laborious + -ly.

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