TOILSOME

arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome

(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 pace”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

toilsome (comparative more toilsome, superlative most toilsome)

Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.

Source: Wiktionary


Toil"some, a.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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