toilsome English

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toilsome

— adjective (= arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing) 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

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laborious

arduous

hard

strenuous

troublesome

punishing

heavy

gruelling

difficult

backbreaking

uphill

tiring

operose

grueling

exhausting

wretched

wearisome

travailous

tough

torture

toil

tireful

stiff

painstaking

onerous

laboursome

labourious

labored

labor

ill-fated

hide

fatiguing

exhaustion

cumbersome

burdensome

bothersome