Involving great hardships, painful exertion, unusual difficulty, etc.

Characterized by, involving, or given to (hard) work; industrious, diligent.

Difficult to do or accomplish; not easy; full of obstacles; laborious; troublesome, awkward.

Difficult, hard, toilsome; irksome, tedious; = tere, adj.

Toilsome.

Hard to perform or accomplish; requiring much exertion; laborious, toilsome.

Causing sweat. Toilsome, laborious.

Characterized by or involving great effort, exertion, pain, or discomfort; laborious, exhausting; arduous, difficult. Cf. travailsome, adj.

Given to labour or hard work; industrious, diligent, hard-working. Formerly also: †able to do physical labour (obsolete).

= laborious, adj. (in various senses).

Laborious.

Causing or involving trouble or labour; difficult; effortful, laborious.

Full of toil; toilsome.

= operose, adj.

That drudges; of the nature of drudgery; toilsome, laborious.

Characterized by or involving great effort, exertion, pain, or discomfort; laborious, exhausting; arduous, difficult; = travailous, adj.

Requiring, involving, or characterized by hard work or exertion; = laborious, adj. 2.

That moils; labouring, toiling; fatiguing, toilsome; turbulent.

Of an action, journey, period of time, etc.: characterized by or involving toil; laborious, tiring.

Involving toil or hard work; = toilsome, adj. 2. Now somewhat rare.

Toiling; toilsome, laborious.

‘Accompanied with sweating’ (Nares); laborious. rare.

Full of or abounding in sweat; inducing or accompanied by sweat; toilsome, laborious; distressing, oppressive.

Involving great effort or endeavour; laborious. Obsolete.

Made with, involving, or evidencing much effort or industry; laborious; tedious.

Involving toil, laborious, toilsome. In extended use: heavy, ponderous. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

Characterized by laborious or tedious movement or progress; sluggish; slow-moving. Cf. schlep, v.