Characterized by or involving great effort, exertion, pain, or discomfort; laborious, exhausting; arduous, difficult. Cf. travailsome, adj.
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| 释义 | the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion > esp. through labour (8) travailousa1382 Characterized by or involving great effort, exertion, pain, or discomfort; laborious, exhausting; arduous, difficult. Cf. travailsome, adj. laboriousc1410 Characterized by or involving hard work or exertion; requiring much time or effort; arduous, tiring; painstaking, tiresomely difficult. Also of a… travailsome1549 Characterized by or involving great effort, exertion, pain, or discomfort; laborious, exhausting; arduous, difficult; = travailous, adj. break-back1556 That breaks the back; crushing, over heavy. toilsome?1570 Of an action, journey, period of time, etc.: characterized by or involving toil; laborious, tiring. toilful1573 Involving toil or hard work; = toilsome, adj. 2. Now somewhat rare. back-aching1603 instrumental and locative, with participles and adjectives, forming adjectives, as back-broken, back-aching, back-breaking. back-breaking1904 instrumental and locative, with participles and adjectives, forming adjectives, as back-broken, back-aching, back-breaking. |
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