operose

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

Adj

• Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking.
• Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.
• Tedious, wearisome.

Adjective

• Involving or requiring much labor; laborious or diligent.

Examples

• The operose task of finding a seven-letter word on a blocked board was daunting.

Synonyms

arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome

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