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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Canada, whose economy has already been weakened by previous rounds of tariffs, had been actively engaging with US officials as the two countries tried to resolve their broader trade dispute.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
But at what stage does that tip over into actively working to secure a sale?

— James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of actively

Adverb

The Heat are hard-capped at the NBA first luxury-tax apron due to the machinations required to trade last month for Milwaukee Bucks forwards Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle landed hard with the back of her head hitting the ground in the 31st minute.

— Phuoc Nguyen, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of hard

Adverb

This person started out diligently highlighting and taking notes.

— Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
From 1908 until his death in 1947, he was largely confined to the property’s main home under specialized psychiatric care, while Katherine lived elsewhere, diligently funding research to find a cure.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of diligently

Adverb

Owning several cars, intensively studying both the new and used car markets and testing so many vehicles has taught me a lot about what makes a great automobile.

— Charles Singh, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
The team tested intensively with real drivers in multiple countries.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 9 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

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The jury was listening intently and looking at the screen as the story of the shooting unfolded, more engaged after already listening to hours of the recording.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Yan gazes intently at how the colors reflect against Pascoal’s skin, eyes and hair.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of intently

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That is inaccurate, not what the investigation covers, and viral posts on X are misleading people either through incompetence or purposefully misleading information.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Although the bars are not related, all three arrived on the scene under purposefully mysterious circumstances.

— Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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