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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOIL'SOME, a. Laborious; wearisome; attended with fatigue and pain; as toilsome work; a toilsome task.
What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?
1. Producing toil; as a toilsome day or journey.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1575 marked by or full of toil or fatigue ; laborious <a toilsome journey> • toilsomely adverb • toilsomeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. involving toil; laborious. Derivatives: toilsomely adv. toilsomeness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Laborious, fatiguing, wearisome, onerous, operose, tedious, hard, difficult, painful, severe.

Moby Thesaurus

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