The meaning of LABORED is produced or performed with labor; also : lacking ease of expression. How to use labored in a sentence.

Labored definition: done or made with difficulty; heavy.. See examples of LABORED used in a sentence.

1. Produced or done with effort: the labored breathing of a very ill person. 2. Lacking natural ease; strained: a labored style of debating.

LABORED definition: 1. US spelling of laboured 2. needing a lot of effort, often because someone is tired: . Learn more.

If something such as someone's writing or speech is labored, they have put too much effort into it so it seems awkward and unnatural. ...his characters' labored musings about love and death …

to act, behave, or function at a disadvantage (usually fol. by under): to labor under a misapprehension. Medicine to be in the actual process of giving birth.

Definition of labored adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.