Labourously

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. Characterized by requiring considerable effort or exertion to achieve something; performed with a detailed and meticulous approach that often feels tedious; involving a degree of hardship and difficulty in the progress of an activity or task
2. Marked by a diligent and strenuous effort to complete tasks; executed with a sense of painstaking attention to detail that may seem burdensome; entailing a challenging and wearisome process in achieving results
3. Defined by taking a significant amount of time and energy to accomplish objectives; conducted through a careful and thorough manner that can come off as laborious; featuring an arduous and taxing nature in the undertaking of work

Etymology: "Labourously" is a simple formation: the adjective "labourous," meaning full of labour or toilsome, with the adverb-forming suffix "-ly" added to the end. Both parts carry the same core idea of toil, so the adverb describes doing something in a laborious way. The base adjective "labourous" itself is a variant of "laborious," which descends from the Latin "laboriosus," built from "labor" (toil) and the suffix "-osus" (full of). The English spelling with "-our" follows the British convention used for many words borrowed through French.

Synonyms: diligently, hard, strenuously, ardently, tirelessly

Antonyms: easily, effortlessly