Toilsome

Definition: Toilsome

Toilsome

Adjective

1. Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "toilsome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Toilsome

Difficulty

Adjective: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done.

Exertion

Laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric.

Crosswords: Toilsome

The Fable of the Toilsome Ascent and the Shining Table Lamp (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i mundimshëm (labored, laborious, laboured, tiring, troublesome, uncomfortable), i lodhshëm (arduous, dull, irksome, laborious, long winded, pernickety, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, trying, wearing, wearisome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, tired, tiring, toil-worn, weary, worn out), ‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, fatiguing, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, trying, vexing, wearisome, weary), ‏مجهد (arduous, exhausting, fatiguing, laborious, onerous, overwrought, strenuous, tiring, wearing), ‏شاق (arduous, hard, laborious, malaise, onerous, painful, robust, stiff, strenuous, terrible, troublesome, trying, uphill). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усилен (fierce, heavy, severe, toilful), уморителен (exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, killing, tiresome, wearing, weary, wearying). (various references)

Czech

namáhavý (arduous, gruelling, hard, labor intensive, laborious, labour intensive, painful, strenuous, troublesome, trying, wearing). (various references)

French

pénible (tough), épuisant. (various references)

German

mühselig (arduous, laborious, laboriously, troublesome, uphill). (various references)

Greek 

κοπιώδησ (laborious), επίπονοσ (arduous, laborious). (various references)

Hebrew 

מי�'ע (grueling, gruelling, illsome, laborious, tiresome, uphill, wearisome), מעיף (fatiguing, tedious, tiresome, trying). (various references)

Hungarian

fárasztó (against the collar, burdensome, difficult, exhausting, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, gruelling, irking, irksome, onerous, pain in the neck, stiff, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, trying, uphill, warm, weariful, wearing, wearisome). (various references)

Italian

faticoso (arduous, arduously, difficult, grindingly, grueling, gruelling, hard, killing, labored, laborious, laboured, stiff, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, uphill, wearisome). (various references)

Manx

tooilleilagh (exacting, fatiguing, tiresome, tiring, wearing, wearisome, wearying). (various references)

Pig Latin

oilsometay

Portuguese

trabalhoso (Hardy, painful, sweaty, toilful, uphill), penoso (arduous, bitter, burdensome, difficult, go ahead, grievous, irksome, laborite, painful, thorny, toilful, tough, trying, unthankful, weary), duro (adamant, callous, cornered, crapy, crusty, die hard, flinty, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, hard boiled, hard up, heartless, iron, iron-bound, jarring, marble, non-ductile, racking, rocky, rough, rugged, set, severe, shrewd, sinewy, solid, stand up, stern, stiff, tough, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unyielding, wiry), árduo (arduous, difficult, go ahead, hard, painful, thorny, toilful, tough, trying). (various references)

Romanian

spinos (briery, delicate, difficult, hard, horrid, spiky, spiny, thorny, ticklish), plicticos (boring, bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, lifeless, musty, ponderous, stodgy, tedious, vapid, wearisome), obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, strenuous, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome, weary), laborios (arduous, hard, hard working, laborious, laboriously), harnic (active, busily, busy, diligent, diligently, hard working, hardworking, industrious, industriously, light footed, living, operose, sedulous, spry). (various references)

Russian 

утомительный (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, tiring, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weary, wearying), трудный (arduous, baffling, difficult, formidable, hard, labored, laborious, laboured, man-sized, narrow, painful, toilful, trying, unmanageable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naporan (drudgery, grueling, gruelling, heavy, labored, laboured, strenuous, tiring, toilful, trying). (various references)

Spanish

laborioso (active, hardworking, heavy, industrious, labor intensive, laborious, labour intensive, plodding, ponderous, toilful), fatigoso (fatiguing, labored, laboured, tiresome, tiring, toilful, wearisome), arduo (arduous, hard, strenuous, tough, uphill). (various references)

Swedish

mödosam (arduous, difficult, hard, inconvenient, laborious, uphill). (various references)

Turkish

zahmetli (demanding, drudging, exacting, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, troublesome, troublous, trying, uphill, with an effort), yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, with an effort), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Ukrainian

стомливий (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, laborious, languorous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, trying, tucked up, weariful, wearing, weary), важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, leaden, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vất vả (toiful, troublesome), khó nhọc (onerous, painful, rugged, stiff, toiful, troublesome), cực nhọc (toiful). (various references)

Welsh

llafurus (arduous, laborious, painstaking). (various references)

laboriosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "toilsome": toilsomely, toilsomeness, toilsomenesses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: motiles, oolites, ostiole, stoolie.

-2 letters: looies, molest, molies, motels, motile, oolite, osmole, otiose, somite, toiles.

-3 letters: emits, islet, istle, items, limes, limos, looie, looms, loose, loots, lotos, melts, metis, miles, milos, milts, mites, moils, moist, moles, molto, molts, mools, moose, moots, moste, motel, motes, oleos, olios, omits, osmol, slime, smelt, smile, smite, smolt.

+1 letter: bloomiest, dolomites, gloomiest.

+2 letters: colotomies, gemologist, lobotomies, lobotomise, metropolis, monostelic, motionless, schooltime, toilsomely, xylotomies.

+3 letters: automobiles, colostomies, completions, compositely, cosmopolite, demolitions, dolomitizes, emotionless, etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, gemmologist, gemologists, leukotomies, lithotomies, lobectomies, lobotomised, lobotomises, lobotomizes, locomotives, meliorators, metrologies, metrologist, molestation, monostelies, museologist, mythologies, schooltimes, semiologist, teleonomies.

+4 letters: ameliorators, colorimeters, commonalties, contumelious, cosmopolites, coulometries, demonologist, embryologist, emotionalism, emotionalist, entomologies, entomologist, enzymologist, epistemology, etymologised, etymologises, etymologists, etymologizes, evolutionism, gemmologists, heliotropism, hematologies, hematologist, laparotomies, meliorations, mesothelioma, metrologists, metropolises, molestations, moonlighters, motionlessly, museologists, mythologizes, nematologies, nematologist, numerologist, osmolalities, osmolarities, osteomalacia, phlebotomies, phlebotomist, seismologist, semiologists, somatologies, stromatolite, toilsomeness, tomfooleries.

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