Antonyms for labored
ˈleɪ bərdla·bored

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1. labored

   Antonyms:
   not elaborate, unstudied, easy, off hard

   Synonyms:
   elaborate, studied, carefully wrought

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1. labored, laboured, strainedadjective

   lacking natural ease

   "a labored style of debating"

   Antonyms:
   effortless, graceful

   Synonyms:
   constrained, agonistic, strained, heavy, laboured, forced

2. heavy, labored, labouredadjective

   requiring or showing effort

   "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"

   Antonyms:
   graceful, effortless

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, with child(p), sound, strained, wakeless, dense, grueling, heavy(p), threatening, grave, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), profound, operose, heavy, arduous, big(a), punishing, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

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1. laboredadjective

   Synonyms:
   studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural

How to use labored in a sentence?

1. Socrates:

   Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

2. Utah Rep. Ben McAdams:

   I am at home, feeling about as sick as I've ever been, it's really labored breathing, I feel like I have a belt around my chest that's really tight. When I cough, my muscles are so sore, so I just feel pain every time I cough, which is frequently.

3. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

4. Joseph de Maistre:

   In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

5. Louie Michael:

   The breathing is labored, it's tough. This stuff is real.

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