Toilsomeness
21laboriousness — n. Toilsomeness, difficulty …
22hardness — n 1. firmness, solidity, compactness, density; impenetrability, imperviousness, renitency, re sistency; stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inextensibility, inelasticity, inflexibility, unmalleability, intractability, unbendingness; immutability,… …
23severity — n 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness;… …
24toilsome — /ˈtɔɪlsəm/ (say toylsuhm) adjective characterised by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing. {toil1 + some1} –toilsomely, adverb –toilsomeness, noun …
25toilsome — [toil′səm] adj. [see SOME1] requiring or involving toil; laborious toilsomely adv. toilsomeness n …
26backbreaking — adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing …
27effortfulness — noun the quality of requiring deliberate effort • Ant: ↑effortlessness • Derivationally related forms: ↑effortful • Hypernyms: ↑difficulty, ↑difficultness • Hyponyms: ↑ …
28grueling — adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing …
29operose — adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing …
30punishing — adjective 1. resulting in punishment the king imposed a punishing tax • Participle of verb: ↑punish 2. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling… …
