labored Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb strive and make an effort to reach a goal
    push; drive; labor; labour; tug.
    • She tugged for years to make a decent living
    • We have to push a little to make the deadline!
    • She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
  2. verb work hard
    moil; travail; dig; grind; labour; drudge; toil; labor; fag.
    • She was digging away at her math homework
    • Lexicographers drudge all day long
  3. verb undergo the efforts of childbirth
    labour; labor.
  4. adjective satellite lacking natural ease
    strained; laboured.
    • a labored style of debating
  5. adjective satellite requiring or showing effort
    heavy; laboured.
    • heavy breathing
    • the subject made for labored reading

WordNet


La"bored adjective
Definitions
  1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

Webster 1913