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Grueling vs Toilsome - What's the difference?

grueling | toilsome |

As adjectives the difference between grueling and toilsome

is that grueling is while toilsome is requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.

grueling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • 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