"travailous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more travailous [comparative], most travailous [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), from Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”). Equivalent to travail + -ous. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|travailous||laborious, wearisome}} Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), {{der|en|xno|travaillous}} Anglo-Norman travaillous, {{der|en|fro|travaillos||tiring, painful}} Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”), {{suffix|en|travail|ous}} travail + -ous Head templates: {{en-adj}} travailous (comparative more travailous, superlative most travailous)
  1. (obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome. Tags: archaic, obsolete
    Sense id: en-travailous-en-adj-NZwHJrWw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous

Adjective [Middle English]

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos. Etymology templates: {{bor|enm|xno|travaillous}} Anglo-Norman travaillous, {{der|enm|fro|travaillos}} Old French travaillos Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} travailous, {{enm-adj}} travailous
  1. hardworking, industrious
    Sense id: en-travailous-enm-adj-7M26nKdk Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 21 32 23 20 2 2
  2. laborious, taxing, wearisome
    Sense id: en-travailous-enm-adj-veKkuMWI
  3. perilous, inhospitable, inaccessible
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  4. woeful, pained, wretched
    Sense id: en-travailous-enm-adj-7n7U3To8
  5. distressing, painful
    Sense id: en-travailous-enm-adj-1BUjR057
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: travaylous, travaylouse, travyliouse, travailouse, travaillous, traveilous, traveilouse, traveillous, travalous, travelous, travelouse, travelos, travelyous, travellous, travylus

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