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toilsome

[toil-suhm]

adjective

characterized by or involving toil; laborious or fatiguing.

Origin:
1575–85; toil¹ + -some¹

Related forms

toil·some·ly, adverb

toil·some·ness, noun

Synonyms
wearisome, arduous, strenuous, tiring.

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toilsome or toilful (ˈtɔɪlsəm)

—*adj*
	laborious

toilful or toilful

—*adj*

'toilsomely or toilful

—*adv*

'toilfully or toilful

—*adv*

'toilsomeness or toilful

—n

'toilfulness or toilful

—n

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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all for fear of being carried off their feet. The prospect really does frighten me that they may finally become so engrossed in a cowardly love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right."

-Alexis de Tocqueville

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