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Operose   Listen
adjective
Operose  adj.  Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. "Operose proceeding." "A very operose calculation."





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"Operose" Quotes from Famous Books



... time at a loss for arguments to defend his unsocial principles, viva voce, he always used to say—"I have published my opinions; consult my works; and, if I am wrong, confute me publicly." To most persons this mode of confutation was by far too operose; but they might have confoundedly puzzled ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 484 - Vol. 17, No. 484, Saturday, April 9, 1831 • Various


Words linked to "Operose" :   heavy, backbreaking, hard, grueling, gruelling, punishing, effortful, toilsome, arduous


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