Synonyms of labored

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adjective

as in manufactured

Related Words

• manufactured
• strained
• contrived
• automatic
• forced
• concocted
• pat
• mechanical
• fabricated
• assumed
• unreal
• simulated
• affected
• canned
• feigned
• unnatural
• hollow
• unrealistic
• mock
• exaggerated
• artificial
• pseudo
• phony
• hokey
• plastic
• pretended
• bogus
• sham
• fake
• hypocritical
• factitious
• spurious
• theatrical
• insincere
• unauthentic
• false
• empty
• put-on
• melodramatic
• facile
• unctuous
• mealy
• histrionic
• studied
• wooden
• cultivated
• deliberate
• mealymouthed
• stylized
• conscious
• calculated
• overacted
• impersonal
• overdone
• conventional
• genteel
• two-faced
• cute
• formal
• double-dealing
• mincing
• rigid
• left-handed
• artful
• inflexible
• premeditated
• overrefined
• stiff
• cutesy
• simpering
• goody-goody

Dissimilar Words

• natural
• genuine
• real
• spontaneous
• unaffected
• artless
• bona fide
• true
• right
• authentic
• realistic
• sincere
• honest
• smooth
• easy
• unforced
• ingenuous
• unfeigned
• uncontrived
• effortless
• unconscious
• unpretending
• instinctive
• impromptu
• extemporaneous
• impulsive
• unstudied
• unrehearsed
• unprompted

labored

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verb

past tense of labor

as in struggled

to devote serious and sustained effort

the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief

Synonyms & Similar Words

• struggled
• worked
• endeavored
• toiled
• tried
• strove
• tugged
• slaved
• plowed
• hustled
• dug (away)
• sweat
• travailed
• grubbed
• fagged
• plodded
• humped
• pegged (away)
• strained
• drudged
• slogged
• plugged
• banged away
• sweat blood
• moiled
• applied (oneself)
• attacked
• beavered (away)
• exerted
• exercised
• pitched in
• hammered (away)
• essayed
• buckled (down)
• dug in
• drove
• scratched
• overworked
• waded
• eked out
• trudged
• knuckled down
• scrabbled
• overexerted
• ground (out)
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slackened
• broke
• eased (up)
• idled
• chilled
• let up
• rested
• loafed
• hung (around or out)
• lounged
• shirked
• dallied
• lazed
• relaxed
• hacked (around)
• basked
• played
• slacked (off)
• bummed
• reposed
• hung
• lolled
• goofed (off)
• unwound
• dabbled
• trifled
• dillydallied
• vegged out
• goldbricked
• footled
• doodled
• fooled around
• hung about
• messed around
• puttered (around)
• pottered (around)
• goofed (around)
• monkeyed (around)
• fribbled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of labored

Adjective

The recording of the voice-over was in a sense more of a labored experience than the filming. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 June 2026

Squandered assets and unexpected free-agent departures turned it into a source of frustration and boredom for fans, who watched labored breakouts, poor puck management and ugly games pile up. — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 28 June 2026

Verb

With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Tidwell labored through the first inning, allowing two runs and throwing 32 pitches. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026