LABORIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laboriously mean? 

• LABORIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb LABORIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a laborious manner

  Familiarity information: LABORIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LABORIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a laborious manner

Context example:

their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them

Pertainym:

laborious (characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort)

 Context examples 

In the lower bunk lay Louis, grossly fat and warm and sweaty, asleep unfeignedly and sleeping laboriously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were not long able, however, to enjoy the repose of the eminence they had so laboriously gained.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The dogs had stopped beside a water- hole, not a fissure, but a hole man-made, chopped laboriously with an axe through three and a half feet of ice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was very hard, but I turned back, though with a heavy heart, and began laboriously and methodically to plod over the same tedious ground at a snail's pace; stopping to examine minutely every speck in the way, on all sides, and making the most desperate efforts to know these elusive characters by sight wherever I met them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He showed me that it was covered with manuscript, very closely and laboriously written; but so plainly, that as I looked along the lines, I thought I saw some allusion to King Charles the First's head again, in one or two places.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)