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toilsome |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toilsome \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}, {labourious}, {punishing}]
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