Meaning

2 senses
  1. (obsolete)Hard-working.

  2. (archaic)Characterised or marked by labour; laborious; difficult, elaborate, involved.

Origin

From labour + -some.

From labour + -some.

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Forms

more laboursome, most laboursome
Comparativemore laboursome Lesson
Superlativemost laboursome Lesson

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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