Associations to the word «Operose»
Verb
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Wiktionary
OPEROSE, adjective. Wrought with, requiring, or evidencing a lot of labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
OPEROSE, adjective. Describing a person who is busy, industrious, or painstaking.
Dictionary definition
OPEROSE, adjective. 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".
Wise words
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words
were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only,
and not for things themselves.