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toylesome

toylesome is the obsolete form 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 toylesome

comparativemore toylesome
superlativemost toylesome

Questions about toylesome

What is toylesome the obsolete form of?
Toylesome is the obsolete form of toilsome.

Words near toylesome in the dictionary

  1. toykind
  2. Toyland
  3. toyle
  4. toyled
  5. toyles
  6. toylesome
  7. toyless
  8. toylessness
  9. toylike
  10. toyline
  11. toylines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toylesome (page history and authors); toilsome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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