Definition of toilsome Toilsome
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What does toilsome mean?
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| toilsome - 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" | ||
| arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing | ||
| effortful requiring great physical effort | ||
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Wiktionary 
- toilsome (Adjective)
Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- toilsome (a.)
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
