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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"
[syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling,
hard, heavy, laborious, punishing]
WordNet (r) 2.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "toilsome":
Herculean, abstruse, arduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome,
complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile,
difficult, draining, effortful, enervating, exacting, exhausting,
fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard,
hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, intricate, jawbreaking,
killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic,
not easy, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, punishing,
rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep,
strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, thorny, ticklish,
tiresome, tiring, tough, tricky, troublesome, trying, uphill,
weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wicked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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