worksomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

worksome (comparative more worksome, superlative most worksome)

1. (archaic) Characterised by work; industrious; diligent.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VI (Thermidor), page 382:

     —and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues!

2. Laborious; work-intensive.
   • 1968, University of Santo Tomás, Philippiniana sacra: Volume 3:

     At the very beginnings of his governance time began to show how turbulent and worksome it was going to be, […]

派生語

• unworksome
• worksomeness