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Definition: OPEROSE |
OPEROSEAdjective1. Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. |
Date "OPEROSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Operose \Op"er*ose`\ adjective. [Latin expression operosus, from opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Adjective: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done. |
Exertion | Laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: OPEROSE |
| English words defined with "OPEROSE": Operous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "OPEROSE": Operous. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "OPEROSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pracovní (occupational, operational, working). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | operoseay obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, painful, restless, strenuous, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome, weary), muncitor (active, hard working, industrious, Jack, journeyman, laborer, laboring, laborious, labourer, labouring, operative, toiler, worker, working, workman), harnic (active, busily, busy, diligent, diligently, hard working, hardworking, industrious, industriously, light footed, living, sedulous, spry, toilsome). (various references) старанний (affectionate, assiduous, careful, diligent, duteous, painstaking, particular, scholarly, searching, sedulous, studious, willing), складний (complex, complicated, composite, compound, decomposite, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, jointed, mazy, multiplex, profound, tangled, tickle, tricky), працелюбний, діяльний (abuzz, active, busy, deedful, humming, omnific, rash, stirring). (various references) tỉ mỉ (close, closely, conscientious, elaborately, meticulous, minute, minutely, narrowly, particular, scrutinizingly, thorough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OPEROSE": operosely, operoseness, operosenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-o-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: porose, repose. | |
-2 letters: erose, peers, perse, pores, poser, prees, prese, prose, proso, repos, roose, ropes, sopor, speer, spoor, spore, spree. | |
-3 letters: epos, eros, oops, opes, ores, peer, pees, peso, poor, pore, pose, pree, pros, rees, repo, reps, roes, rope, rose, seep, seer, sere, sore. | |
-4 letters: ere, ers, oes, ope, ops, ore, ors, ose, pee. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-o-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: exospore, oosphere, proteose, reoppose. | |
+2 letters: borescope, cooperies, endospore, exospores, forespoke, geoprobes, noosphere, oospheres, operosely, overhopes, pereopods, podomeres, poechores, proteoses, recompose, reopposed, reopposes, torpedoes. | |
+3 letters: aeciospore, azeotropes, borescopes, cooperages, cooperates, decomposer, endospores, forespoken, horsepower, horsepoxes, ionosphere, necropoles, noospheres, operagoers, orthoepies, overexpose, overpowers, peashooter, pereiopods, peroxisome, pheromones, poornesses, potometers, powerhouse, protostele, recomposed, recomposes, spooferies, spookeries, teliospore, uredospore, zookeepers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 50 45 52 4F 53 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- .--. . .-. --- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01001111 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O P E R O S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0050 0045 0052 004F 0053 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49503952495339 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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