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. — Los Angeles Times, 10 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 No, these Warriors are doing something laboriously, painfully joyless. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 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

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Asia’s governments are actively de-risking from the USD, with central banks aggressively expanding their gold reserves.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Payments will only begin after the new nuclear plant is completely built and actively delivering electricity to the power grid.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026

Definition of actively

Adverb

Pushing too hard is a fast route to overuse injuries and trail burnout, and neither one gets you to the terminus.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
Others will argue, reasonably, that no other commercial industry staffs onboard physicians on most routes, and that the infrequency of serious events makes dedicated medical staffing hard to justify economically.

— Sriman Swarup, STAT, 13 July 2026

Definition of hard

Adverb

As one of the cofounders of the Wild Orchard brand who’s diligently working to expand this top-quality tea in America, Michael Ham is deeply ingrained in the story of these tea fields.

— Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Buff Medical Resort finally opened in 2025, a medi-spa where every aspect of your patient experience is diligently reviewed.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026

Definition of diligently

Adverb

The lower mowing ranges are commonly used for recreational turf areas that are more intensively managed.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
One big concern is that screens are intensively stimulating for young people because they are held up close and engage young viewers with things such as fast cuts and colors.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 4 June 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

Batman stares intensely at the camera, and the film’s logo appears, followed by the new release date, which is set for February 18, 2028, up from its previous release date of October 1, 2027.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 July 2026
Previously, shooting in Imax required alternate ways of capturing sound because of the intensely loud cameras.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of intensely

Adverb

Thoughts, memories and reactions can surface quickly, and listening intently will be easier said than done.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026
At the same time, Miles starts to notice a presence in his pictures, a woman in a raincoat (Kate Dickie) staring intently into the camera.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 July 2026

Definition of intently

Adverb

The indictment alleged Beasley purposefully under- and over-performed statistically in order to influence prop bets made by Plascencia and other co-defendants on Beasley’s individual statistics.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 1 July 2026
The book, like the exhibition, is overwhelming, resists linear reading, and purposefully drives the observer into a state of disorientation.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 30 June 2026

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