Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

choresome en · ADJ

Etymology

From chore + -some.

Meanings

  1. Characteristic of a chore; marked by drudgery or toil; toilsome; (by extension) difficult; tedious; laborious
    • 'I was getting ready to let five of them west acres go to weeds, you know, they're so choresome to keep the thistle out of.' 2009, David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars:
    • Adams was chairman or president, as they called him, the most choresome duty of his entire four years in Congress. 2017, Anne Burleigh, John Adams, page 165:
    • You will find moments of your effort to be choresome, but the feeling shouldn't ever dominate your life. 2014, Alexander Valdez, Our Story Begins, page 86:
    • Analyzing the Gospel through a first century management lens takes management from the sidelines and puts it smack dab in the middle of the highway. Far from being a secular or nonsacred choresome part of life that has little to do with spiritual or transcendent matters, managing the everyday organizations that produce the goods and services needed by humankind lies near the heart of Godly living. 2013, B. Dyck, Management and the Gospel:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more choresome Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most choresome Degree=Sup lexicographic

Relateds

worksome