Found 3 hits - Term: wearisome, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wearisome \wea"risome\, a.
causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a
wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
1913 webster
these high wild hills and rough uneven ways
draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --shak.
1913 webster
syn: irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying;
vexatious. see irksome.
1913 webster -- wea"risomely, adv. --
wea"risomeness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
irksome wea"risomely wea"risomeness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wearisome
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, tiresome
see also:
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow
tedious tiresome
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
91 moby thesaurus words for "wearisome":
herculean, aggravating, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, black,
bleak, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome,
crushing, dark, dismal, disturbing, draining, drear, drearisome,
dreary, effortful, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome,
fatiguing, forced, funebrial, funereal, galling, gloomy, grave,
gray, grim, grueling, harassing, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy,
hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating,
killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful,
pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome,
plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, saturnine, solemn, somber,
sombrous, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful,
stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tiresome, tiring,
toilsome, tormenting, tough, triste, troublesome, troubling,
trying, uphill, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, weary,
wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny
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