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toilsome a. 费力的,辛苦的,劳苦的 费力的,辛苦的,劳苦的 toilsome adj 1: characterized by 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" [ synonym: { arduous}, { backbreaking}, { grueling}, { gruelling}, { hard}, { heavy}, { laborious}, { operose}, { punishing}, { toilsome}] Toilsome \ Toil" some\ ( toil" s[ u^] m), a. Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. [ 1913 Webster] What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks? -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Toil" some* ly}, adv. -- { Toil" some* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 69 Moby Thesaurus words for " toilsome": Herculean, abstruse, arduous, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, draining, effortful, enervating, exacting, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, formidable, grueling, hairy, hard, hard- earned, hard- fought, heavy, hefty, intricate, jawbreaking, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, rugged, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, thorny, ticklish, tiresome, tiring, tough, tricky, troublesome, trying, uphill, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wicked
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