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toilsome
Synonyms and Antonyms of toilsome
- faced with the toilsome task of cleaning out her deceased father's homestead
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, tough, uphill
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic (also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
- this is the most toilsome part of the construction, so we'll go slowly to make sure we're doing it right
arduous, burdensome, challenging, demanding, exacting, grueling (or gruelling), killing, laborious, onerous, persnickety, taxing
easy, effortless, facile, simple, smooth
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