toilsomeadjective
/ˈtɔɪl.səm//ˈtɔɪl.səm/old-fashioned formalinvolving hard or difficult work, or great effort:
The ascent was long and toilsome over the mountain.
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- 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.
- A walk upon ploughed ground in England is a dance upon carpets, compared to the toilsome drudgery of wandering in Skye.
- Every morning, throughout his toilsome, dangerous journey, he greeted the sunrise with joy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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