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11operose — a. 1. Laborious, toilsome, hard, onerous, burdensome, difficult. 2. Wearisome, tedious, irksome …
12operose — adj 1. industrious, hard working, diligent, assiduous, sedulous, studious, intent; plodding, unflagging, indefatigable, tireless, undrooping, unsleeping; persistent, pertinacious, constant, earnest, patient, painstaking, exacting; workmanlike,… …
13operose — op·er·ose …
14operose — op•er•ose [[t]ˈɒp əˌroʊs[/t]] adj. done with or involving much labor; tedious • Etymology: 1660–70; < L operōsus busy, active =oper (s. of opus) work + ōsus ose I op′er•ose ly, adv. op′er•ose ness, n …
15operose — a. requiring effort; working hard …
16operose — adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing …
17Operosely — Operose Op er*ose a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.] Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. Operose proceeding. Burke. A very operose calculation. De Quincey. {Op er*ose ly}, adv. {Op… …
18Operoseness — Operose Op er*ose a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.] Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. Operose proceeding. Burke. A very operose calculation. De Quincey. {Op er*ose ly}, adv. {Op… …
19grueling — I (difficult) adjective complex, complicated, difficult, extreme, formidable, hard, harsh, involved, labyrinthine, obscure, onerous, opaque, operose, trying II (weakening) adjective debilitating, devitalizing, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting,… …
20arduous — I adjective backbreaking, burdensome, difficult, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, grueling, hard, hard earned, hard fought, intricate, irksome, laborious, lofty, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, precipitous, punishing, rugged, severe,… …
