Toil·some a. Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
     What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?   --Milton.
  -- Toil*some*ly, adv. -- Toil*some*ness, n.
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  toilsomeness
       n : the quality of requiring extended effort [syn: laboriousness,
            operoseness]