choresome

choresome adjective: characteristic of a chore; marked by drudgery or toil; toilsome; (by extension) difficult; tedious; laborious.

Adjective

choresome (comparative more choresome, superlative most choresome)

Characteristic of a chore; marked by drudgery or toil; toilsome; (by extension) difficult; tedious; laborious
- 'I was getting ready to let five of them west acres go to weeds, you know, they're so choresome to keep the thistle out of.'2009, David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
- Analyzing the Gospel through a first century management lens takes management from the sidelines and puts it smack dab in the middle of the highway. Far from being a secular or nonsacred choresome part of life that has little to do with spiritual or transcendent matters, managing the everyday...2013, B. Dyck, Management and the Gospel

You will find moments of your effort to be choresome, but the feeling shouldn't ever dominate your life.2014, Alexander Valdez, Our Story Begins, page 86:
Adams was chairman or president, as they called him, the most choresome duty of his entire four years in Congress.2017, Anne Burleigh, John Adams, page 165:

comparative	more choresome
superlative	most choresome

From chore + -some.

What does choresome mean?: Choresome means characteristic of a chore; marked by drudgery or toil; toilsome; (by extension) difficult; tedious; laborious.
How do you use choresome in a sentence?: You will find moments of your effort to be choresome, but the feeling shouldn't ever dominate your life.
What part of speech is choresome?: Choresome is an adjective.

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