Meaning & use
toilsome
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Requiring long, hard, and exhausting effort or labor.
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The farmers endured a toilsome harvest season under the summer sun.
Climbing the mountain proved far more toilsome than the guidebook suggested.
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A somewhat literary word built from "toil," meaning hard physical or mental work, plus the adjective suffix "-some."
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