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Toilsome vs Worn - What's the difference?

toilsome | worn |

As adjectives the difference between toilsome and worn

is that toilsome is requiring continuous physical effort; laborious while worn is damaged and shabby as a result of much use.

As a verb worn is

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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

    worn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • damaged and shabby as a result of much use

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * outworn * worn out