adj
Meaning 1
Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
toilsome
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈtɔɪlsəm/
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From toil + -some.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тежък (težǎk) — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Bulgarian: уморителен (umoritelen) — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Faroese: stríggin — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Faroese: strævin — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Faroese: striltin — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Faroese: tungur — Requiring continuous physical effort
- German: mühselig — Requiring continuous physical effort
- German: mühsam — Requiring continuous physical effort
- German: anstrengend — Requiring continuous physical effort
- German: schwer — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Ancient Greek: ἐπίπονος (epíponos) — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Ancient Greek: μογερός (mogerós) — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Latin: laboriosus — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Spanish: laborioso — Requiring continuous physical effort
- Spanish: arduo — Requiring continuous physical effort