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Definition of toilsome in English: toilsomeadjective ˈtɔɪls(ə)mˈtɔɪlsəm archaic, literary Involving hard or tedious work. 〈古或诗/文〉辛苦的，劳累的 Example sentencesExamples - It preferred these short-cut means to the more toilsome efforts of building up a base through good governance, social reforms and ideological education of the cadres.
- The problem is that young people regard carving as a toilsome and profitless job.
- The specialized work seems interesting to outsiders but is actually toilsome, hard and even dangerous.
- His chief work was done in his study, where he was constantly to be found in an arm-chair with his writing board resting across his arms, engrossed in toilsome arithmetical or analytic processes.
- Marx, though critical of industrial capitalism, also maintained a belief that machines would eventually liberate man from the toilsome qualities of human labor.
Synonyms onerous, oppressive, troublesome, weighty, worrisome, vexatious, irksome, trying, crushing, inconvenient, awkward, a nuisance
Derivativesadverbˈtɔɪls(ə)mliˈtɔɪlsəmli literary, archaic The figure they had seen the night before seemed slowly and toilsomely labouring to pile the large stones one upon another, as if to form a small enclosure. Example sentencesExamples - He saw the farmer and the buffalo working toilsomely in the field and observed that countless worms were killed by the plough and treads.
- Travelling toilsomely one hot day between Peebles and Selkirk, with his tools over his back, he was overtaken by a carriage containing a grey-haired gentleman, whom he did not know.
- While Pompey was thus anxiously and toilsomely endeavoring to gain the sea-shore, Cæsar was completing his victory over the army which he had left behind him.
- And regardless of how innocently bought and sold, how toilsomely acquired, or how ancient its pedigree, every existing land title will be found to be spurious if traced to its origin.
nounˈtɔɪls(ə)mnəsˈtɔɪlsəmnəs literary, archaic They become discouraged at the hardness and toilsomeness of the way or at the little impression they are able to make on the world, and grow weary. Example sentencesExamples - Certainly I acquired deeper respect for the sheer toilsomeness of the effort and for those who do it, day after day.
- First, then, let me point out some of the significant hints which the gospel records give us of the toilsomeness of Christ's service.
- Now when after much toilsomeness they had won clear of that foul tract of morass and quagmire, they came upon vast herds of swine grubbing beneath the oaks, and with them savage-looking swineherds scantily clad in skins.
- They do not weigh the toilsomeness of their work and its benefit by their need for a good life; they instead consider it proof of what they are ‘worth.’
Definition of toilsome in US English: toilsomeadjectiveˈtɔɪlsəmˈtoilsəm literary, archaic Involving hard or tedious work. 〈古或诗/文〉辛苦的，劳累的 Example sentencesExamples - The specialized work seems interesting to outsiders but is actually toilsome, hard and even dangerous.
- Marx, though critical of industrial capitalism, also maintained a belief that machines would eventually liberate man from the toilsome qualities of human labor.
- It preferred these short-cut means to the more toilsome efforts of building up a base through good governance, social reforms and ideological education of the cadres.
- The problem is that young people regard carving as a toilsome and profitless job.
- His chief work was done in his study, where he was constantly to be found in an arm-chair with his writing board resting across his arms, engrossed in toilsome arithmetical or analytic processes.
Synonyms onerous, oppressive, troublesome, weighty, worrisome, vexatious, irksome, trying, crushing, inconvenient, awkward, a nuisance
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