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Grievous vs Toilsome - What's the difference?

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Grievous is a related term of toilsome.


As adjectives the difference between grievous and toilsome

is that grievous is causing grief, pain or sorrow while toilsome is requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.

grievous

English

Alternative forms

* greuous (obsolete) * grievious (less common outside dialects)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
  • * 1883 ,
    • As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed but not dangerous.
  • Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    toilsome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
  • *:‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’

    • Derived terms

    * toilsomely * toilsomeness