different between toilsome vs worn

English

Alternative forms

• toylesome (obsolete)

Etymology

From toil +? -some.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??ls?m/

Adjective

toilsome (comparative more toilsome, superlative most toilsome)

1. Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’

Derived terms

• toilsomely
• toilsomeness
• untoilsome

Translations

English

Etymology

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /wo(?)?n/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /wo?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophone: warn (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Adjective

worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)

1. damaged and shabby as a result of much use

Translations

Verb

worn

1. past participle of wear

Derived terms

• forworn
• outworn
• worn out

Anagrams

• Norw., rown

Middle English

Verb

worn

1. Alternative form of weren

Old English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /worn/, [wor?n]

Noun

worn m

1. great many, multitude
2. crowd, swarm, band, flock

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “worn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.