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toilsome en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɔɪlsəm/ (UK)
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Etymology

From toil + -some.

Meanings

1. Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
   • ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’ 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • The whole of the interior of South Africa is, of course, one vast plateau at a considerable elevation, and all the main lines coming up from the coast have some toilsome climbing. 1940 July, “Notes and News: Timetables in South Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:

Forms

Deriveds

toilsomeness · toilsomely · untoilsome

Translations (15)

es arduo (Requiring continuous physical effort) · la laboriosus (Requiring continuous physical effort) · fo tungur (Requiring continuous physical effort) · bg тежък (Requiring continuous physical effort) · fo stríggin (Requiring continuous physical effort) · grc μογερός (Requiring continuous physical effort) · de anstrengend (Requiring continuous physical effort) · de mühsam (Requiring continuous physical effort) · grc ἐπίπονος (Requiring continuous physical effort) · de mühselig (Requiring continuous physical effort) · fo striltin (Requiring continuous physical effort) · bg уморителен (Requiring continuous physical effort) · de schwer (Requiring continuous physical effort) · fo strævin (Requiring continuous physical effort) · es laborioso (Requiring continuous physical effort)