English Dictionary

operose

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɒpəɹəʊs/

形容詞

古語

(now rare) Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking. / (now rare) Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious. / (now rare) Tedious, wearisome.

日本語の意味

（人に対して）忙しく、勤勉で、細やかな配慮がある、つまり働き者である。 / （物に対して）多大な労力を必要とする、骨の折れる、手間のかかる。 / （状況や作業が）退屈で面倒な、うんざりするほど煩雑な。

Her operose efforts to catalog the museum's archives won her the curator's admiration.

博物館のアーカイブを丹念に整理した彼女は、学芸員の称賛を得た。

意味（1）

(now rare) 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.

意味（2）

(now rare) Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.

Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operoſe machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body […]

意味（3）

(now rare) 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.

more operose （ comparative ）

most operose （ superlative ）