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adjective
Date: 1575
marked by or full of toil or fatigue ; laborious <a toilsome journey> • toilsomely adverb • toilsomeness noun
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Toilsome — Toil some (toil s[u^]m), a. Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. [1913 Webster] What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks? Milton. [1913 Webster] {Toil some*ly}, adv. {Toil some*ness}, n. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
toilsome — index onerous, operose, oppressive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
toilsome — (adj.) 1580s, from TOIL (Cf. toil) + SOME (Cf. some). An earlier word was toilous (early 15c.). The opposite, toilless (c.1600) is much less common … Etymology dictionary
toilsome — [adj] laborious arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, exhausting, hard, labored, onerous, operose, rough, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, uphill*; concept 538 … New thesaurus
toilsome — [toil′səm] adj. [see SOME1] requiring or involving toil; laborious toilsomely adv. toilsomeness n … English World dictionary
toilsome — toilsomely, adv. toilsomeness, n. /toyl seuhm/, adj. characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing. [1575 85; TOIL1 + SOME1] Syn. wearisome, arduous, strenuous, tiring. * * * … Universalium
toilsome — adjective requiring continuous physical effort; laborious … Wiktionary
toilsome — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, abstruse, arduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, draining, effortful, enervating, exacting, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing,… … Moby Thesaurus
toilsome — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Difficult] Syn. laborious, strenuous, hard; see difficult 1 . 2. [Dull] Syn. tedious, boring, wearisome; see dull 4 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. laborious, hard, arduous, difficult, backbreaking, strenuous,… … English dictionary for students
toilsome — adj. tiring, laborious … English contemporary dictionary
