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Toilsome vs Wearisome - What's the difference?

toilsome | wearisome |

As adjectives the difference between toilsome and wearisome

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

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

    wearisome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.
    • Adding definitions can be wearisome work

    Synonyms

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