toilsome Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
    heavy; grueling; punishing; operose; backbreaking; hard; arduous; gruelling; laborious.
    • 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

WordNet

Toil"some adjective
Definitions
  1. Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
    What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks? Milton.
    -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.

Webster 1913