strainsome

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English

Etymology

From strain +‎ -some.

Adjective

strainsome (comparative more strainsome, superlative most strainsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by straining
    • 1973, Ēnugula Vīrāsvāmayya, Kasiyatra Charitra:
      There are 300 steps to the mountain and it is strainsome to ascend the stairs.
    • 2011, Prashant Saxena, The Departed One:
      [...] when you looked me with those teary eyes / and heart pounding with strainsome cries [...]

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