worksome

English

From work +‎ -some. Cognate with German wirksam (“effective, operative, effectual”), Swedish verksam (“active, operative”), Old English weorcsum (“laborious, painful”).

worksome (comparative more worksome, superlative most worksome)

(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!
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, […]

industrious — see industrious

laborious — see laborious