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Toilsome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Characterized by or requiring toil.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. requiring continuous physical effort; laborious

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Attended with toil; demanding or compelling toil; laborious; fatiguing.

Synonyms Onerous, tedious.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

Word Usage

"For they strive by a kind of toilsome exercise of the body itself to root out those lusts that are hurtful to the body, that is, those habits and affections of the soul that lead to the enjoyment of unworthy objects."

Equivalent

effortful

Form

toilsomely toilsomeness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

laborious wearisome

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

arduous wearisome irksome time-consuming thankless perilous circuitous uncongenial eventful fruitless