laboured

Other forms of laboured

comparative

labouredder·

superlative

laboureddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laboured

What does laboured mean?

laboured means "lacking natural ease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laboured?

laboured has 2 syllables: labou-red. The stress falls on "labou".

What is another word for laboured?

Close synonyms include labored, strained, heavy, labored. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laboured a common word?

laboured is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.