Synonyms of labored

labored 1 of 2

adjective

as in manufactured

Synonyms & Similar Words

• manufactured
• strained
• contrived
• automatic
• forced
• concocted
• pat
• mechanical
• fabricated
• assumed
• unreal
• simulated
• affected
• canned
• feigned
• unnatural
• hollow
• unrealistic
• mock
• exaggerated
• artificial
• pseudo
• phony
• hokey
• plastic
• unauthentic
• phoney
• pretended
• bogus
• sham
• fake
• hypocritical
• factitious
• spurious
• theatric
• theatrical
• insincere
• false
• empty
• put-on
• melodramatic
• facile
• unctuous
• mealy
• histrionic
• studied
• wooden
• cultivated
• deliberate
• mealymouthed
• stylized
• mincing
• conscious
• calculated
• overacted
• impersonal
• overdone
• conventional
• genteel
• two-faced
• cute
• formal
• double-dealing
• rigid
• left-handed
• artful
• inflexible
• premeditated
• overrefined
• stiff
• cutesy
• simpering
• goody-goody

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• natural
• genuine
• real
• spontaneous
• unaffected
• artless
• bona fide
• true
• right
• authentic
• realistic
• sincere
• honest
• smooth
• easy
• unforced
• ingenuous
• unfeigned
• uncontrived
• effortless
• unconscious
• unpretending
• instinctive
• impromptu
• extemporaneous
• impulsive
• unstudied
• unrehearsed
• unprompted

labored

2 of 2

verb

past tense of labor

as in wrought

to devote serious and sustained effort

the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wrought
• struggled
• worked
• sweated
• strived
• toiled
• tried
• endeavored
• strove
• tugged
• slaved
• plowed
• hustled
• dug (away)
• sweat
• travailed
• grubbed
• fagged
• plodded
• humped
• pegged (away)
• strained
• drudged
• slogged
• plugged
• sweated blood
• banged away
• sweat blood
• moiled
• applied (oneself)
• attacked
• beavered (away)
• exerted
• pitched in
• hammered (away)
• exercised
• essayed
• buckled (down)
• dug in
• drove
• scratched
• overworked
• waded
• eked out
• trudged
• knuckled down
• scrabbled
• overexerted
• ground (out)
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slackened
• broke
• eased (up)
• idled
• chilled
• let up
• rested
• loafed
• hung (around or out)
• lounged
• shirked
• dallied
• lazed
• hanged (around or out)
• relaxed
• hacked (around)
• played
• basked
• slacked (off)
• bummed
• reposed
• hung
• lolled
• goofed (off)
• unwound
• dabbled
• trifled
• hanged
• dillydallied
• vegged out
• goldbricked
• footled
• doodled
• fooled around
• hung about
• messed around
• puttered (around)
• pottered (around)
• goofed (around)
• monkeyed (around)
• fribbled

Examples of labored in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

And labored breathing in dogs could be a sign of heat exhaustion or heat stroke. —Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024

By December 1826, Beethoven was quite ill, suffering from a second bout of jaundice and swollen limbs, fever, dropsy, and labored breathing. —Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024

Those who find Lanthimos’s labored eccentricities and cutesy cruelty amusing will presumably like this movie, too. —Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 May 2024

Jokic responded with a labored performance that mirrored his team’s — 34 points, 19 rebounds, seven assists but on 28 shots. —Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 19 May 2024