Hypertext Webster Gateway: "toilsome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Toilsome \Toil"some\ (-s[u^]m), a.
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious;
wearisome; as, toilsome work.
What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks? --Milton.
-- {Toil"some*ly}, adv. -- {Toil"some*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
toilsome
adj : characterized by toilsome 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}, {labourious}, {punishing}]
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