Labored

Antonyms for labored:

easy, facile, graceful, effortless.

Synonyms for labored:

Sense 1

bronchial, winded, indrawn, respiratory, contrived, difficult, pulmonary.

Sense 2

deeply, heavily, undivided, chesty.

Sense 3

heavy-handed, shallow, elephantine.

Sense 4

breathless.

Sense 6

deep.

Sense 9

choke.

Sense 19

sharp.

detailed

elaborate.

Other synonyms and related words:

hard, lowering, elephantine, lumbering, fleshy, leaden, dense, effortful, cloggy, threatening, grievous, chesty, laboured, contrived, strained, heavy, toilsome, undivided, arduous, heavy-handed, punishing, awkward, ponderous, grave, respiratory, backbreaking, weighty, overweight, laborious, impenetrable, sullen, elaborate, indrawn, bronchial, difficult, gruelling, sound, profound, clayey, agonistic, weighed down, sonorous, shallow, deep, heavily, forced, grueling.

all (adjective)

laboured, strained, heavy.

difficult to understand, unclear (adjective)

effortful, contrived, hard, ponderous, strained, heavy, forced, toilsome, awkward, weighty, arduous.

effortful (adjective)

effortful.

Sense 2 (noun)

choke, deep, chesty, contrived, heavily, bronchial, breathless, pulmonary, deeply, indrawn.

Sense 3 (noun)

elephantine, heavy-handed.

forced (noun)

difficult.

labored (noun)

laboured, strained, awkward, effortful, heavy.

acted (verb)

Appeared, Worked, Endeavored, moved, Transacted, functioned, Performed, Behaved, Acted, done, executed, Operated, Perpetrated, Comported, Did, Exercised, Officiated, conducted, reacted.

exerted (verb)

expended, discharged, Wielded, applied, employed, Exerted.

worked (verb)

Toiled.

Usage examples for labored:

• In common with other early workers he labored at the disadvantage of having few tools. - "Christopher and the Clockmakers", Sara Ware Bassett.
• At times he roused himself to be polite to her, and made a labored effort to do something to amuse her, just as if she had been visiting him as a favor and he felt in duty bound to make the time pass pleasantly, but she troubled him so little with herself, that nearly always he forgot her. - "Marcia Schuyler", Grace Livingston Hill Lutz.
• For the sake of the girl who had maintained his innocence with steadfast faith, the suspicion under which he labored must be dispelled. - "Prescott of Saskatchewan", Harold Bindloss.