Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not laborious; not toilsome; not difficult; easy.

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Examples

  • In this one thing I crave leave of the present licensers to be pardoned for so thinking; who doubtless took this office up, looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament, whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlaborious to them; but that this short trial hath wearied them out already, their own expressions and excuses to them who make so many journeys to solicit their licence are testimony enough.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • In this one thing I crave leave of the present licensers to be pardoned for so thinking; who doubtless took this office up, looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament, whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlaborious to them; but that this short trial hath wearied them out already, their own expressions and excuses to them who make so many journeys to solicit their licence are testimony enough.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • But still, when the trout was well in the basket, her joy was great; and then came across her unlaborious mind some half-formed idea that a great ordinance of nature was being accomplished in the teeth of difficulties.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • Once more: all people value most what has cost them much labour in the production; for instance, people who have themselves made their money are fonder of it than those who have inherited it: and receiving kindness is, it seems, unlaborious, but doing it is laborious.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • His ideal of a master is one who needs a great deal of waiting on in trivial, unlaborious ways, who tolerates all shortcomings and slovenliness, and bestows liberal gratuities.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • No doubt you are depending on an unlaborious 'intuition' to get you through the examinations.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • No doubt you are depending on an unlaborious 'intuition' to get you through the examinations.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • A time has come when every form of learning, however preposterous it may seem, is made as unlaborious as possible for the would-be student.

    The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

  • In this one thing I crave leave of the present licensers to be pardoned for so thinking: who doubtless took this office up, looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament, whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlaborious to them; but that this short trial hath wearied them out already, their own expressions and excuses to them who make so many journeys to solicit their license, are testimony enough.

    Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909

  • Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea; 10

    To Virgil 1909

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