laboriously

1. 1.

   in a laborious manner

   “their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them”

Questions about laboriously

What does laboriously mean?

laboriously means "in a laborious manner".

How many syllables are in laboriously?

laboriously has 5 syllables: la-bo-ri-ou-sly. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ləˈbɔɹiəsli/.

Is laboriously a common word?

laboriously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.