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operose

adjective

Meaning

  1. Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking.
  2. Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.
  3. Tedious, wearisome.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

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Related words

over-industrious(English)painful(English)actuose(English)ponderous(English)worky(English)overindustrious(English)workful(English)laborious(English)peak(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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