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Toilsome vs Cumbersome - What's the difference?

toilsome | cumbersome |

As adjectives the difference between toilsome and cumbersome

is that toilsome is requiring continuous physical effort; laborious while cumbersome is burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.

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

    cumbersome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; vexatious; cumbrous.
  • Not easily managed or handled; awkward.
    • Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
  • Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
    • A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * cumbersomely * cumbersomeness

    Synonyms

    * cumbrous