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toylsom

toylsom 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 toylsom

comparativemore toylsom
superlativemost toylsom

Questions about toylsom

What is toylsom the obsolete form of?
Toylsom is the obsolete form of toilsome.

Words near toylsom in the dictionary

  1. toylessness
  2. toylike
  3. toyline
  4. toylines
  5. toyling
  6. toylsom
  7. toymaker
  8. toymakers
  9. toymaking
  10. toyman
  11. toymen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toylsom (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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