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Meaning of 'toilsome' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Toilsome [ a.]
- Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.

Meaning of 'toilsome' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . toilsome [ s]
Meaning (1):
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Example in sentence:
  • a grueling campaign;
  • hard labor;
  • heavy going;
  • heavy work;
  • set a punishing pace;
  • spent many laborious hours on the project;
  • worked their arduous way up the mining valley

Nearby Words:

toil toiled toiler toilet toilette toilful toilinette toiling toilless toise

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