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toilsom

toilsom is the obsolete spelling of toilsome.

Meaning of toilsome

Adjective

toilsome (comparative more toilsome, superlative most toilsome)

  1. Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
    • ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of toilsom

comparativemore toilsom
superlativemost toilsom

Questions about toilsom

What is toilsom the obsolete spelling of?
Toilsom is the obsolete spelling of toilsome.

Words near toilsom in the dictionary

  1. toilings
  2. toilless
  3. toillessness
  4. toils
  5. toils and moils
  6. toilsom
  7. toilsome
  8. toilsomely
  9. toilsomeness
  10. toilworn
  11. toing

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