daunting vs laboured

daunting

adj
  • Appearing to be difficult; challenging. 

  • Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming. 

  • Discouraging; inspiring fear. 

noun
  • The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming. 

  • The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation. 

laboured

adj
  • Expressive of strenuous effort. 

  • Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production. 

How often have the words daunting and laboured occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )