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Synonyms for toilsome
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : toil-suhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɔɪl səm |
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Définition of toilsome
Origin :- 1580s, from toil + -some (1). An earlier word was toilous (early 15c.). The opposite, toilless (c.1600) is much less common.
- adj laborious
- The drive is a slow and toilsome ascent of three hours and a half.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- It was like a toilsome passage through the workings of an iron mine.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- This was at eight or nine in the morning, after many hours' toilsome march.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- It was a toilsome and dreary march, unrelieved by aught to lessen the fatigue.
- Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
- The third day of my toilsome journey was drawing to a close.
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- And the burdensome one is toilsome, while the delightsome one is pleasurable.
- Extract from : « On Prayer and The Contemplative Life » by St. Thomas Aquinas
- But the alternative was so toilsome that we resolved to take the chance.
- Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
- She would not save him to live the toilsome, slavish life of the Jews.
- Extract from : « Fair to Look Upon » by Mary Belle Freeley
- I set about helping him, and for an hour we labored at this hasty and toilsome moving.
- Extract from : « Rudder Grange » by Frank R. Stockton
- The temperature was just bearable, but the road was toilsome from its uneven character.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
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