Definitions for: Toilsome


[adj] characterized by toilsome 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 pace"



Webster (1913) Definition: Toil"some (-s[u^]m), a.
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious;
wearisome; as, toilsome work.

What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks? --Milton.
-- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.

Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, effortful, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing

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