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Meaning of travailous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.

archaic, obsolete

Examples

“[…] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,”

“A pined and jaded man he was before his middle days, and unlikely to live to full age. Better his mother had been barren, than that her womb should have borne such a sorry travailous life!”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Travancorean travel-size travel-sized traveled traveling travellable