Definitions for toilsome

toilsome toil·some

Spelling: [toil-suh m]
IPA: /ˈtɔɪl səm/

Toilsome is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 310 anagrams from letters in toilsome (eilmoost).

Definitions for toilsome

adjective

  1. characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.

Origin of toilsome

First recorded in 1575-85; toil1 + -some1

Examples for toilsome

And the burdensome one is toilsome, while the delightsome one is pleasurable.

But the alternative was so toilsome that we resolved to take the chance.

The temperature was just bearable, but the road was toilsome from its uneven character.

She would not save him to live the toilsome, slavish life of the Jews.

The drive is a slow and toilsome ascent of three hours and a half.

I set about helping him, and for an hour we labored at this hasty and toilsome moving.

It was like a toilsome passage through the workings of an iron mine.

The third day of my toilsome journey was drawing to a close.

This was at eight or nine in the morning, after many hours' toilsome march.

It was a toilsome and dreary march, unrelieved by aught to lessen the fatigue.

Word Value for toilsome
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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