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- Dictionarytoilsome/ˈtɔɪls(ə)m/
adjective
- 1. involving hard or tedious work: archaic, literary "toilsome chores"
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The meaning of TOILSOME is marked by or full of toil or fatigue : laborious. How to use toilsome in a sentence.
involving hard or difficult work, or great effort: The ascent was long and toilsome over the mountain. Fewer examples. Campus housing officials across the country have a toilsome task every year. He remembered the long, toilsome months when he had worked to perfect his style of writing.
Something is toilsome if it's really difficult, requiring exhausting or boring effort. Shoveling a foot of heavy snow out of your neighbor's long driveway is toilsome. The adjective toilsome is archaic — it's hardly ever used anymore.
involving hard or difficult work, or great effort: The ascent was long and toilsome over the mountain. Fewer examples. Campus housing officials across the country have a toilsome task every year. He remembered the long, toilsome months when he had worked to perfect his style of writing.
4 meanings: laborious → 1. involving great exertion or long effort 2. given to working hard 3. (of literary style, etc) not.... Click for more definitions.
Toilsome definition: characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.. See examples of TOILSOME used in a sentence.
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"
Synonyms for TOILSOME: difficult, challenging, rigorous, tough, demanding, hard, formidable, arduous; Antonyms of TOILSOME: easy, simple, light, undemanding, mindless, effortless, soft, cheap.
Requiring or involving toil; laborious. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: operose. heavy. grueling. backbreaking. gruelling. punishing. laborious. hard. arduous. wearisome. uphill. tiring. strenuous. difficult. Origin of Toilsome. From toil +"Ž -some. From Wiktionary. Toilsome Sentence Examples.
exhausting labor or effort. a laborious task. [ Archaic.]battle; strife; struggle. v.i. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain. v.t. to accomplish or produce by toil.
