Found 2 items, similar to toilsome.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: toilsome toilsome adj : 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” [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing]
English → English (gcide) Definition: 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]