Associations to the word «Laboured»

Wiktionary

LABOURED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of labour
LABOURED, adjective. Of an action that is difficult to perform.
LABOURED, adjective. Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

Dictionary definition

LABOURED, adjective. Lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating".
LABOURED, adjective. Requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin