labored
adjectiveShowing obvious effort or strain instead of ease or naturalness.
THE WORDCRAFT REFERENCE SHELF
Find the right alternative. Search original words, aliases, meanings, synonyms, and related expressions. Compare each choice in its intended sense.
17 entries matching "labor" / Showing 1-17
Clear all filtersShowing obvious effort or strain instead of ease or naturalness.
To discuss or emphasize a point excessively.
Carefully developed and containing many details or complex features.
An explanation that adds detail, or the process of developing an idea more fully.
Addition of explanatory detail
Closest synonyms
Requiring considerable effort or endurance.
Requiring sustained effort
Closest synonyms
More alternatives in the full reference.
Done by or relating to people acting as a group.
The quality of having many connected parts or considerations.
A person or group joined with another for a shared purpose.
Artificial or forced rather than natural.
To decorate or add details, sometimes to exaggerate an account.
Add decoration
Closest synonyms
More alternatives and senses in the full reference.
To speak or write at length and in detail.
Made up of many connected details or parts.
Elaborately decorated or detailed.
Refinement, worldly experience, or complexity of design or thought.
Refinement and experience
Closest synonyms
More alternatives and senses in the full reference.
Unnaturally formal or awkward in expression.
Requiring or involving vigorous effort.
Tiring or boring because something is lengthy, repetitive, or dull.
The headwords are the original WordCraft collection. Related alternatives can include words outside that collection. Open a full reference to compare the sense and usage note.