Word of the Day for Saturday, December 3, 2011
operose \OP-uh-rohs\, adjective:
1. Done with or involving much labor.
2. Industrious, as a person.
It seems to me a circuitous and operose way of relieving myself to put upon your community the emancipation which I ought to take on myself.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Operose is from the Latin word operosus meaning “taking great pains.” It shares a root with the word opus meaning “work.”
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