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(now rare) Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking. [from 16th c.]

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Meaning

  • [Adjective]
  • (now rare) Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking. [from 16th c.]
  • (now rare) Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious. [from 17th c.]
  • (now rare) Tedious, wearisome.

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