laboured

Meanings

Verb

• work hard
• strive and make an effort to reach a goal
• undergo the efforts of childbirth
• simple past and past participle of labour

Adjective Satellite

• lacking natural ease
• requiring or showing effort

Adj

• Expressive of strenuous effort.
• Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

Synonyms

dig, drive, drudge, fag, grind, heavy, labor, labored, labour, moil, push, strained, toil, travail, tug