operose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: operose	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for operose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
operose adj characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" Synonym(s): arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Operose \Op"erose`\ a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor, opus, operis, work, labor.] Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. [bd]Operose* proceeding.[b8] --Burke. [bd]A very operose calculation.[b8] --De Quincey. -- {Op"erose`ly}, adv. -- {Op"erose`ness}, n.