Word Meanings - TOILSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks Milton. -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOILSOME)
- Laborious
- Assiduous
- diligent
- painstaking
- indefatigable
- arduous
- burdensome
- toilsome
- wearisome
- industrious
- hard-working
- active
- difficult
- tedious
- Onerous
- Burdensome
- heavy
- responsible
- oppressive
- laborious
- oppose
- Operose
- Prolix
- Diffuse
- lengthy
- circumlocutory
- prosaic
- verbose
- minute
- wordy
Related words: (words related to TOILSOME)
- RESPONSIBLE
1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, - ONEROUS
Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous. - LABORIOUS
1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic. - INDUSTRIOUS
1. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to - PROLIXLY
In a prolix manner. Dryden. - ONEROUSLY
In an onerous manner. - CIRCUMLOCUTORY
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - DIFFUSE
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and - DIFFUSED
Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n. - ARDUOUSLY
In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness. - OPEROSE
Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome. "Operose proceeding." Burke. "A very operose calculation." De Quincey. -- Op"er*ose`ly, adv. -- Op"er*ose`ness, n. - HEAVY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl. - MINUTELY
In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely. - INDEFATIGABLE
Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with - PAINSTAKER
One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay. - DIFFICULT
1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call - DIFFUSER
One who, or that which, diffuses. - DIFFICULTY
difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not - DIFFUSENESS
The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - RETROACTIVE
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - REFRACTIVE
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction - PRACTIVE
Doing; active. Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner. - DETRACTIVENESS
The quality of being detractive. - SUBTRACTIVE
Having the negative sign, or sign minus. (more info) 1. Tending, or having power, to subtract. - PROTRACTIVE
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden. - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - ATTRACTIVE
1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive