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单词 toilsome
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toilsomeadjective

/ˈtɔɪl.səm//ˈtɔɪl.səm/old-fashioned formal

involving hard or difficult work, or great effort:

The ascent was long and toilsome over the mountain.

More examples

  • 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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