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travailsome

travailsome adjective: characterized by or involving travail.

Adjective

travailsome (comparative more travailsome, superlative most travailsome)

  1. (archaic, literary) Characterized by or involving travail.
    • Admitte than, ſome one, (as the Poetes feigne by Iupiter) ſhulde out of an high high^([sic]) place behold and ſee in how many miſeries mans life is wꝛapped, how wꝛetched and vile his byꝛthe is, how harde his bꝛingyng vp, how weake and pewlyng his childhode, how trauailſome his youthe, how heauy his...1549, Erasmus Roterodame, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie. […], London: […] [I]n the house of Thomas Berthelet, →OCLC, signatures F, recto – F, verso
    • For amid the travailsome throes of this political hurly burly is sent a prime sensation to relieve the tension of the public mind.1909 September 3, “Pointed Pars”, in The Telegraph, number 11,481, Brisbane, Qld., →OCLC, page 6, column 4
    Synonyms:
    travailous

Synonyms of travailsome

Forms of travailsome

comparativemore travailsome
superlativemost travailsome

Origin of travailsome

From travail + -some. Piecewise doublet of travelsome.

Questions about travailsome

What does travailsome mean?
Travailsome means characterized by or involving travail.
What part of speech is travailsome?
Travailsome is an adjective.

Words near travailsome in the dictionary

  1. travaileth
  2. travailing
  3. travailings
  4. travailous
  5. travails
  6. travailsome
  7. travallies
  8. travally
  9. Travancore
  10. Travancorean
  11. Travancoreans

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