laboriousness
Quality of difficulty
Laboriousness is the quality of requiring great effort or toil.
A task marked by laboriousness demands sustained exertion: The laboriousness of hand-copying manuscripts made books rare before printing.
The word can also describe a person's painstaking diligence, though this sense is less common than the sense of difficulty or tediousness.
Extremely careful and thorough
- tediousBoring through length
- arduousDemanding strenuous effort
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- strenuousRequiring intense exertion
exhausting · demanding · meticulous · toilsome · backbreaking · wearisome · onerous · burdensome
Moving slowly, heavily
- sluggishSlow and inactive
- protractedExtended beyond normal duration
- drawn-outExtended beyond normal duration
- time-consumingRequiring much duration
lengthy · prolonged · crawling · deliberate · ponderous · unhurried · methodical · gradual
Elaborately detailed, many parts
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
- complicatedDifficult to understand
- detailedFull of specifics
- involvedParticipating or complicated
thorny · knotty · difficult · challenging · dense · multilayered · exacting · technical
painstaking
Extremely careful and thorough
strenuous · exhausting · demanding · meticulous · toilsome · backbreaking · wearisome · onerous · burdensome · taxing
plodding
Moving slowly, heavily
- sluggishSlow and inactive
- protractedExtended beyond normal duration
- drawn-outExtended beyond normal duration
time-consuming · lengthy · prolonged · crawling · deliberate · ponderous · unhurried · methodical · gradual · incremental
intricate
Elaborately detailed, many parts
- convolutedExcessively complex or twisted
- complicatedDifficult to understand
- detailedFull of specifics
involved · thorny · knotty · difficult · challenging · dense · multilayered · exacting · technical · nuanced
overwrought
Excessively emotional or elaborate
- stiltedUnnaturally formal in expression
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
- verboseMore words than necessary
ponderous · heavy-handed · clunky · strained · affected · contrived · belabored · turgid · leaden · wooden
laboriousnesseffortlessness
Quality of seeming unstrained
ease · simplicity · facility · easiness · lightness
laboriousnessfluency
Smooth linguistic command
smoothness · breeziness · fluidity · quickness · swiftness
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