Associations to the word «Operose»
Verb
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Wiktionary
OPEROSE, adjective. Wrought with, requiring, or evidencing a lot of labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
OPEROSE, adjective. Describing a person who is busy, industrious, or painstaking.
Dictionary definition
OPEROSE, adjective. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.