operose

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operose

/ˈɒpəɹəʊs/

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From Latin operōsus.

adjective more operose · most operose

archaic Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking. When this operose and hard-working student descended from his closet, and gained a sort of tacit leave from his tutor to join in the circle of us gay and high-spirited fellows, the part he played was no more advantageous to him, than his former exhibition had been among the learned.
archaic Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious. Povver and riches appear then to be, vvhat they are, enormous and operoſe machines contrived to produce a fevv trifling conveniencies to the body, […]
archaic Tedious, wearisome. 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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@misc{operose_2026,
  title = {operose},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/operose},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}