worksome
adjEtymology From work + -some. Cognate with German wirksam (“effective, operative, effectual”), Swedish verksam (“active, operative”), Old English weorcsum (“laborious, painful”).
1
Archaic Characterised by work; industrious; diligent.
- —and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues!1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VI (Thermidor), page 382:
2
Laborious; work-intensive.
- At the very beginnings of his governance time began to show how turbulent and worksome it was going to be, […]1968, University of Santo Tomás, Philippiniana sacra: Volume 3:
- Derived terms
- unworksome, worksomeness