labored

Speech parts

1. labored - Adjective

2. labored - Verb

4. labored - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Labor

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heavy strained laboured work difficult forced hard affected false slave artificial elaborate tough stiff awkward
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Antonyms

royal natural accepted agreed advanced easy
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Phrases with the word

feeling of labored breathing labored respiration more labored less labored

Anagrams

Belardo Dolbear Laborde Lodebar

Examples

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God. Dorotheus of Gaza

It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain. W. C. Handy

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed. Chief Joseph

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Francis Bacon

The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

laboratoryful laboratoryware Laborde labored breathing labored respiration laboredly