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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
- Example: "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
- Example: "a grueling campaign"
- Example: "hard labor"
- Example: "heavy work"
- Example: "heavy going"
- Example: "spent many laborious hours on the project"
- Example: "set a punishing pace"
[syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Toilsome \Toil"some\ (toil"s[u^]m), a.
   Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious;
   wearisome; as, toilsome work.
   [1913 Webster]

         What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks? --Milton.
   [1913 Webster] -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness,
   n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

toilsome
    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]