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Definition: Labourious |
LabouriousAdjective1. Characterized by toilsome 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 pace". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "labourious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonyms: LabouriousSynonyms: arduous (adj), backbreaking (adj), grueling (adj), gruelling (adj), hard (adj), heavy (adj), laborious (adj), punishing (adj), toilsome (adj). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "labourious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abouriouslay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-o-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: laborious. | |
-3 letters: bailors, burials, labours, ooralis, railbus, robalos, rubious, suboral. | |
-4 letters: airbus, arioso, aurous, ausubo, bailor, borals, brails, brasil, broils, burial, bursal, isobar, labors, labour, libras, obolus, oorali, robalo, sailor, souari, urbias, urials. | |
-5 letters: aboil, abris, arils, auris, bails, basil, birls, blurs, boars, boils, bolar, bolas, bolos, bolus, boors, boral, boras, brail, brios, broil, broos, buras, burls, bursa, labor, lairs, laris, liars, libra, liras, lobar, lobos, loris, louis, lours, luaus, obias, oboli, obols, olios, orals, rails, rials, roils, rubus, sabir, slurb, solar, sural, urbia, urial, usual. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 62 6F 75 72 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -... --- ..- .-. .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a b o u r i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0062 006F 0075 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46676881878475818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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