Found 3 hits - Term: tiresome, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tiresome \tire"some\, a.
fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing;
tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. --
tire"somely, adv. -- tire"someness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
tire"somely tire"someness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
tiresome
adj : so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the
deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play";
"his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker
who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome
task the writing of long letters is"- edmund burke;
"tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of
a cricket"- mark twain; "other people's dreams are
dreadfully wearisome" syn: boring, deadening, dull,
ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome
see also:
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow
tedious wearisome
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 moby thesaurus words for "tiresome":
aggravating, annoying, bland, boresome, boring, bothering,
bothersome, burdensome, common, commonplace, difficult,
disagreeable, disturbing, draining, drudging, dull, exasperating,
exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, flat, galling, grueling,
harassing, hard, humdrum, hypnotic, importunate, importune,
insipid, irking, irksome, irritating, jading, killing,
matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, onerous, oppressive, ordinary,
pedestrian, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential,
plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plain, poetryless, prosaic, prosing,
prosy, provoking, punishing, soporific, straining, stressful,
stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tedious, tiring,
toilsome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, trying,
unembellished, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned,
uninteresting, unpleasant, unpoetic, unromantic, vapid, vexatious,
vexing, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, worrisome,
worrying, yawny
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