1. (imp. & p. p.) of Labor.

2. (a.) Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

Herculean Latinate affected alliterating alliterative arabesque arduous artificial assonant awkward backbreaking baroque belabored bombastic burdensome busy chanting chichi chiming cliche-ridden clumsy contrived cramped crushing cumbrous difficult dingdong effortful elaborate elegant elephantine excessive fancy farfetched fine flamboyant florid flowery forced formal frilly fussy grueling guinde halting hard hard-earned hard-fought harping heavy hefty high-wrought humdrum inept inkhorn jingle-jangle jog-trot killing laborious leaden lumbering luxuriant luxurious maladroit monotone monotonous moresque onerous operose oppressive ornate ostentatious overdone overelaborate overelegant overlabored overworked overwrought painful picturesque pompous ponderous pretty-pretty punishing rhymed rhyming rich rococo sesquipedalian singsong stiff stilted strained strenuous tedious toilsome tough troublesome turgid unnatural unwieldy uphill wearisome weighty