Laboured

Laboured

Adjective · /ˈleɪ.bəd/

Definition

(Of breathing) slow and difficult; (of a piece of writing, a joke, or an explanation) done with obvious effort and lacking natural ease; forced and unconvincing.

Origin

Past participle of labour used adjectivally. From Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (to toil, to work hard), from labor (toil). The adjectival sense of effortful and unconvincing has been in English since the 17th century.