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operose

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒpəɹəʊs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eeooprsStarts with OEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

Word origin

From Latin operōsus.

Used in a sentence

  • Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operoſe machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body […]
  • when there was so great reason to make it common, since the square letters are less operose, more expedite and facile, then the Samaritan, which is, when time serves, used as a plea for their great Antiquity.

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