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Toilsome vs Tiresome - What's the difference?

toilsome | tiresome |

As adjectives the difference between toilsome and tiresome

is that toilsome is requiring continuous physical effort; laborious while tiresome is causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

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

    tiresome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
    • Eventually his long stories became tiresome .

    Synonyms

    * (causing fatigue or boredom ): boring, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome * See also

    Antonyms

    * (causing fatigue or boredom ): energizing, exciting, fresh, interesting