3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Labored \La"bored\, a.
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not
easy or natural; as labored poetry; a labored style.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr & vb n.
{Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare See
{Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
work to toil.
Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden.
--Milton.
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains.
3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
work under conditions which make it especially hard,
wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under and
formerly with of
The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope.
To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
W. Scott.
Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi 28
4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
sea. -- Totten.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
labored
adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: {laboured},
{strained}]
2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject
made for labored reading" [syn: {heavy}, {laboured}]
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