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adj
Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
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Synonyms: travailsome
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), from Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”). Equivalent to travail + -ous.
