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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Similarly, the interplay enacted in the exhibition between Jafa’s and Prince’s work forces us as visitors to actively participate in a practice of juxtapositional thinking ourselves, producing a momentum that is at once menacing and enlivening.

— Tina M. Campt, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
To Truby’s point, college was the most familiar path (56%) and the one families most expected (42%), while only 9% of teens were actively considering the trades.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of actively

Adverb

And as direct as the ad is (more on it in a moment), the film goes even harder.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Beshear has also campaigned and advertised hard for Democratic candidate Zach Dembo, who is taking on GOP candidate Ralph Alvarado in the open 6th District seat around Lexington.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of hard

Adverb

On that day, Skoloda, Pasek, and others had diligently practiced constructing the Norwegian reeve, along with other rigging arrangements.

— Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
The product is applied to dry lengths and ends and works diligently to tame flyaways once you’re done drying.

— Valeriya Chupinina, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of diligently

Adverb

Newsom, by contrast, may need to begin campaigning intensively after leaving office rather than wait for Harris’s decision.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of intensively

Adverb

Rudi Schreiner, a cofounder of the company, originally hoped to include El Banco but had to cut the town from the itinerary due to the Magdalena's arduously bendy approach to the riverside village.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of arduously

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With his head shaved and his chest usually bared, Yousuke Yukimatsu melds body and machine to choreograph intensely physical sonic marathons.

— Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
Quaise plans to direct that energy underground to heat rock intensely enough to remove it, replacing the mechanical cutting action of conventional drill bits.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of intensely

Adverb

Acuña was tended to for several minutes by the Braves trainer, with Weiss looking on intently, before heading straight to the home clubhouse.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
As the Israeli media focussed intently on the incursion, Einhorn grew restless about the progress of the pro-Qatar campaign.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of intently

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Fans were quick to comment on the color, courtesy of artist Matt Rez, though the fashion afficiando purposefully kept the caption quiet.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Andie is a creature of pure ambition and nearly blank morality, a sweatshirt-wearing, 2000s-era daughter of Lady Macbeth and Faye Dunaway in Network, though Wever purposefully didn’t revisit that film to keep her own performance distinct.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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