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operose a. 费力的,吃力的,勤勉的,用功的 费力的,吃力的,勤勉的,用功的 operose 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" [ synonym: { arduous}, { backbreaking}, { grueling}, { gruelling}, { hard}, { heavy}, { laborious}, { operose}, { punishing}, { toilsome}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 64 Moby Thesaurus words for " operose": Herculean, abstruse, arduous, assiduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, diligent, effortful, elaborate, exacting, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard- earned, hard- fought, heavy, hefty, industrious, intricate, jawbreaking, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic, not easy, onerous, oppressive, painful, painstaking, punishing, rigorous, rough, rugged, sedulous, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strained, strenuous, thorny, thorough, thoroughgoing, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, wearisome, wicked
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