toilsome[adjective]Synonyms: hard, arduous, difficult, effortful, labored, laborious, operose, strenuous, toilful, uphill
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toilsome adjective.
['tɔɪls(ǝ)m] L16.[from TOIL noun1 + -SOME1.]1. Characterized by or involving toil; laborious, tiring.
L16.■ R. L. Stevenson Even for a man unburthened, the ascent was toilsome and precarious. ■ P. G. Wodehouse Cooley..by means of a toilsome youth..had amassed a large amount of money.2. Caused by toil.
rare (Spenser). Only in
L16.3. Hard-working; labouring.
arch. E17. ■ toilsomely adverb E17. ■ toilsomeness noun L16. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲