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Princeton's WordNet

  1. laboriouslyadverb

    in a laborious manner

    "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"

Wiktionary

  1. laboriouslyadverb

    With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.

    The heavy man laboriously climbed the steep mountain, pulling himself up inch by inch.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Laboriouslyadverb

    With labour; with toil.

    Etymology: from laborious.

    The folly of him, who pumps very laboriously in a ship, yet neglects to stop the leak. Decay of Piety.

    I chuse laboriously to bear
    A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air. Alexander Pope, Odys.

ChatGPT

  1. laboriously

    Laboriously is an adverb that refers to doing something in a way that requires a great deal of time, effort, or hard work. It often implies a task that is strenuous or exhausting.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of laboriously in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of laboriously in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of laboriously in a Sentence

  1. Victor Hugo:

    Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

  2. Scott C. Holstad:

    Blank paper before me; fresh snow fall, tracks slowly appearing, my future mapped out, my life, my day. Minute by minute, laboriously, every nook, every cranny exposed. This is my true life, I think while wondering what became of the person I used to be.

  3. Victor Hugo:

    Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

  4. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

    Neither side can benefit when inside the EU one blames the other. In this way we are not moving ahead by even one step in managing the refugee crisis. The rifts that are being formed now must be laboriously healed again.

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