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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OPERO'SE, a. [L. operosus, from opera, operor.]
Laborious; attended with labor; tedious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin operosus, from oper-, opus work — more at operate Date: 1662 tedious, wearisome • operosely adverb • operoseness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Operose Op"er*ose` a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.] Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. ``Operose proceeding.'' --Burke. ``A very operose calculation.'' --De Quincey. -- Op"er*ose`ly, adv. -- Op"er*ose`ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Laborious, toilsome, hard, onerous, burdensome, difficult. 2. Wearisome, tedious, irksome.

Moby Thesaurus

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