LABORIOUSLY Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

laboriously

adverb

as in actively

in a manner involving great or constant activity working laboriously late into the night in order to meet the deadline

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as in hard

with great effort or determination the farmer laboriously pruned all season long to produce the finest crop of grapes possible

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Recent Examples of laboriously For starters, pulling it off requires running a computer script alongside the game, laboriously entering each round of color feedback into a separate application. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 Each was a career politician who spent decades laboriously climbing the government rungs before being elected governor. — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 13 May 2026 There is no need to laboriously clean and sand the walls before priming, per Johnson. — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025 With buckets and mops, Palestinians laboriously scooped water out of their tents. — Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2025 Set in 1970 suburban Massachusetts, Reichardt's take on the heist genre saw O'Connor laboriously heaving art through a hay barn to comedic effect. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025 The now 6-2 Patriots started slow, laboriously taking a 9-7 lead into halftime against the Browns. — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025 The technology is rapidly replacing the old days of crime-scene investigators crafting hand sketches and using tape measures to laboriously take down measurements. — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025 Instead of laboriously testing compounds one by one in wet labs or waiting weeks for physics simulations to finish, scientists can now triage molecules digitally at supercomputer scale. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025

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Yet political room for compromise within Canada remains limited, as the country actively takes steps to reduce its reliance on the US market.

— , CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
This will allow the engineering team to actively construct, test, and refine system components in real-world conditions.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of actively

Adverb

Just be sure to diligently shop around before making a final decision and don't forget to explore your online CD account options as online banks often offer more competitive rates and terms than banks with in-person branch locations do.

— Matt Richardson, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
The bad news for Democrats is that Republicans will spend the next two months working diligently to change that.

— Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of diligently

Adverb

The pork producers group has also intensively lobbied for legislation called the Save Our Bacon Act, which would overturn the state laws.

— Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026
Whalers hunted bowheads intensively in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, pushing them towards extinction.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of intensively

Adverb

After an arduously long winter, these narrow, modestly sized shops have been—with a suddenness and intensity that only TikTok and Instagram can foment—thronged.

— David Kamp, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
The team sequenced the DNA of 38 different mosquitoes belonging to 11 species within the Leucosphyrus group, which had been arduously collected during fieldwork between 1992 and 2020 across Southeast Asia.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026

Definition of arduously

Adverb

That won her support from journalists at NBC News, but not necessarily the corporation, which, like many other media conglomerates is focused more intently on squeezing whatever revenue is to be gleaned from broadcast operations.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Geese’s lead singer, Cameron Winter, is stretched out at full length on a comfortable chair in another corner of the room, gazing intently at a phone with a single large crack marring its screen.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of intently

Adverb

That reciprocal impact, according to Canadian officials, will purposefully target key sectors and states — like Michigan — with particular economic and political importance in the United States.

— Grant Schwab, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Apple, like most services, layers its shows purposefully so one ends and another begins, or has already just begun.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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