Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made with great labor and diligence.
- Apt to labor or to pitch and roll, as a ship in a heavy sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence.
- adjective (Naut.) Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor.
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- adjective Alternative form of
laboursome .
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Examples
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I myself remember my grossly overweight days in the mid 90's, when climbing a modest hill was laborsome.
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright... Steven Barnes 2009
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When Monroe was alive, living was little more laborsome than drawing on bank accounts, abstract and distant.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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When Monroe was alive, living was little more laborsome than drawing on bank accounts, abstract and distant.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Helen could barely get her breath and she panted as if she had just climbed a laborsome hill.
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Then it slowed on a level, and again it halted for a few moments, and once more in motion it began a laborsome climb.
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There were tangled thickets of wild plum-trees and other thorny growths that made passage extremely laborsome.
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905
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The ride there was laborsome and it took time, but Neale scarcely noted either fact.
The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905
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It was laborsome to trudge up and down in soft snow.
The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905
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Helen could barely get her breath and she panted as if she had just climbed a laborsome hill.
The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905
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Then it slowed on a level, and again it halted for a few moments, and once more in motion it began a laborsome climb.
The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905
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