toilsome

Etymology

From toil + -some.

adj

  1. Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
    The whole of the interior of South Africa is, of course, one vast plateau at a considerable elevation, and all the main lines coming up from the coast have some toilsome climbing. 1940 July, “Notes and News: Timetables in South Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 422

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