laborious russian

• усе́рдный

  diligent, industrious, hard-working, assiduous

  zealous, painstaking, laborious

• хло́потный

  troublesome, difficult, laborious, burdensome

• трудоёмкий

  labour-intensive, laborious

• многотру́дный

  arduous, laborious, toilsome

• вы́мученный

  forced, laborious, laboured, ponderous

• копотли́вый

  slow, sluggish, laborious

• канителенный

  fussy, finicky, tedious, laborious

• тя́жко

  heavily, with difficulty, laboriously

  painfully, agonizingly, hard (emotionally)

• натужно

  with difficulty, strenuously, with effort, laboriously

• надсадно

  strainingly, laboriously, with a great effort, with a strain

• трудоёмкость

  labour-intensiveness, laboriousness

• трудоёмко

  labor-intensively, laboriously, with great effort, tediously

• хлопотли́вость

  troublesomeness, laboriousness, bothersomeness

  fussiness, bustling manner, busyness

Examples

• Он натужно поднял тяжёлый мешок с земли.

  He laboriously lifted the heavy sack off the ground.

• Переезд оказался очень хлопотным делом.

  Moving house turned out to be a very laborious undertaking.

• Вышивка оказалась трудоёмким занятием для новичка.

  Embroidery turned out to be a laborious task for a beginner.

• Писатель вымучивал новую главу романа неделями.

  The writer spent weeks laboriously working on a new chapter of the novel.

• Это копотливая работа, за час не управишься.

  It's slow, laborious work—you can't finish it in an hour.

• Я видел коня, тяжело переступающего по грязи.

  I saw a horse laboriously picking its way through the mud.