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

No, what’s stuck in my head is Morocco’s Round of 32 victory over the Netherlands on the very last, labored breath of the match. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026

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

Verb

That left it to mixed, where the PBR teams labored past Chicago’s youngsters in two close mixed matches to win 3-1 and move onto the next round. — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Wrobleski labored his previous two starts, giving up 12 runs and eight homers in 10 1/3 innings. — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026