'Toilsome' definitions:
Definition of 'toilsome'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
Definition of 'Toilsome'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster] -- {Toil"some*ly}, adv. -- {Toil"some*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'toilsome'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Herculean,
- 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