From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Operose \Op"er*ose`\ a. [L. operosus, fr. opera pains, labor,
opus, operis, work, labor.]
Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious;
wearisome. "Operose proceeding." --Burke. "A very operose
calculation." --De Quincey. -- {Op"er*ose`ly}, adv. --
{Op"er*ose`ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
operose
adj 1: 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" [syn: {arduous},
{backbreaking}, {grueling}, {gruelling}, {hard}, {heavy},
{laborious}, {operose}, {punishing}, {toilsome}]
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