Synonyms for labored
ˈleɪ bərdla·bored

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1. labored

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, studied, carefully wrought

   Antonyms:
   not elaborate, unstudied, easy, off hard

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1. labored, laboured, strainedadjective

   lacking natural ease

   "a labored style of debating"

   Synonyms:
   constrained, agonistic, strained, heavy, laboured, forced

   Antonyms:
   effortless, graceful

2. heavy, labored, labouredadjective

   requiring or showing effort

   "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, with child(p), sound, strained, wakeless, dense, grueling, heavy(p), threatening, grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, heavy, arduous, big(a), punishing, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

   Antonyms:
   graceful, effortless

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1. laboredadjective

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, studied, carefully wrought

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1. laboredadjective

   Synonyms:
   studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural

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1. Robertson Davies:

   He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

2. Joseph de Maistre:

   In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

3. Socrates:

   Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

4. Utah Rep. Ben McAdams:

   I am at home, feeling about as sick as I've ever been, it's really labored breathing, I feel like I have a belt around my chest that's really tight. When I cough, my muscles are so sore, so I just feel pain every time I cough, which is frequently.

5. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.