Antonyms for labored


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ley-berd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈleɪ bərd


Definition of labored

Origin :
  • also laboured, "learned," mid-15c., past participle adjective from labor (v.). Meaning "done with much labor" is from c.1600.
  • adj difficult to understand, unclear
Example sentences :
  • But on the first two and greatest articles of his creed, how Jasper labored!
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • On her thwarts two figures, dipping and rising, labored with the sweeps.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • He and Tom labored like Trojans to take off the wheel, and put on the other.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • These damned New Yorkers had no idea of the pressure under which he labored.
  • Extract from : « Reel Life Films » by Samuel Kimball Merwin
  • At the same time he labored assiduously in other directions.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
  • He fidgeted, hesitated, and then hurried forth a labored apology.
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • He sought his fellows on the parish committee and labored with them.
  • Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • So I labored out of the barn and trudged through the grass to the hedge.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • And during the day they labored like Trojans at their work, as though to forget it.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks
  • This was the very thing we labored against, or one of them, at least.
  • Extract from : « The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences » by Hosea Quinby

Synonyms for labored

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