travailous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.

Word forms

travailous more travailous most travailous

Etymology

From Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), from Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”). Equivalent to travail + -ous.

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